Stromatoveris
| Stromatoveris psygmoglena Temporal range: Chengjiang | |
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| artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Phylum: | Ctenophora (?) |
| Genus: | †Stromatoveris |
| Species: | † S. psygmoglena |
| Binomial name | |
| Stromatoveris psygmoglena Shu et al. 2006 | |
Stromatoveris psygmoglena is a fossil organism from Chengjiang deposits of Yunnan that was originally aligned with the fossil Charnia (strictly, the Charniomorpha) from the Ediacara biota.[1] However, such an affinity is developmentally implausible and S. psygmoglena is now thought to be either a sessile basal ctenophore, or a sessile organism closely related to ctenophores.[2]
References
- ↑ Shu, D. -G.; Morris, S.; Han, J.; Li, Y.; Zhang, X.; Hua, H.; Zhang, Z.; Liu, J.; Guo, J.; Yao, Y.; Yasui, K. (2006). "Lower Cambrian Vendobionts from China and Early Diploblast Evolution". Science 312 (5774): 731–734. Bibcode:2006Sci...312..731S. doi:10.1126/science.1124565. PMID 16675697.
- ↑ Antcliffe, J. B.; Brasier, M. D. (2007). "Charnia and sea pens are poles apart". Journal of the Geological Society 164: 49. doi:10.1144/0016-76492006-080.
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