Biology:Cheungkongella
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Short description: Genus of sea squirts
Cheungkongella | |
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Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Chordata |
Subphylum: | Tunicata |
Class: | Ascidiacea |
Genus: | †Cheungkongella Shu et al. 2001 |
Species: | †C. ancestralis
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Binomial name | |
†Cheungkongella ancestralis Shu et al. 2001
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Cheungkongella ancestralis is a tunicate-like organism from the Lower Cambrian Haikou Chengjiang deposits of China .[1] It was originally described as a tunicate, though, this identification has been questioned, especially with the discovery of another Chengjiang tunicate, Shankouclava. This challenge to Cheungkongella being a tunicate has led some experts to reassess it as a cambroernid related to Eldonia, Herpetogaster, and most closely to Phlogites, to which it has been subjectively synonymized as.
References
- ↑ Shu, X. L.; Chen, D. G.; Han, X. -L.; Zhang, X. -L. (24 May 2001). "An Early Cambrian tunicate from China". Nature 411 (6836): 472–473. doi:10.1038/35078069. PMID 11373678.
Wikidata ☰ Q5094270 entry