Biology:Burykhia
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Short description: Extinct genus of sea squirts
| Burykhia | |
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| reconstruction as a tunicate-like animal | |
Scientific classification 
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| Missing taxonomy template (fix): | Ascidiacea/? |
| Family: | †Ausiidae |
| Genus: | †Burykhia Fedonkin, Vickers-Rich, Swalla, Trusler & Hall, 2012 |
| Species: | †B. hunti
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| Binomial name | |
| †Burykhia hunti Fedonkin, Vickers-Rich, Swalla, Trusler & Hall, 2012
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Burykhia hunti is a Precambrian fossil from the White Sea region of Russia dating to 555 million years ago. It is considered of ascidian affinity, due to the sac-like morphology and a series of distinctly perforated bands reminiscent of a tunicate pharynx. If B. hunti is a tunicate, it could be the oldest ascidian fossil known as of its publication in 2012.[1] It is possibly related to the slightly younger Ausia, another putative ascidian from the Vendian biota in Namibia.[1] In the case of Burykhia, the narrow longitudinal vessels support affinity with the suborder Phlebobranchia.
Burykhia does not appear to have been colonial.[1]
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Fedonkin, M. A.; Vickers-Rich, P.; Swalla, B. J.; Trusler, P.; Hall, M. (2012). "A new metazoan from the Vendian of the White Sea, Russia, with possible affinities to the ascidians". Paleontological Journal 46: 1. doi:10.1134/S0031030112010042.
Wikidata ☰ Q5001149 entry
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