Gemmactena
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Ctenophora |
| Class: | †Scleroctenophora |
| Genus: | †Gemmactena Ou et al., 2015 |
| Species: | †G. actinala |
| Binomial name | |
| †Gemmactena actinala Ou et al., 2015 | |
Gemmactena is an extinct, monospecific genus of scleroctenophoran that lived during Cambrian Stage 3, containing a single species, Gemmactena actinala.[1]
Distribution
Gemmactena is known from the Heilinpu Formation of China.[1]
References
- 1 2 Ou, Qiang; Xiao, Shuhai; Han, Jian; Sun, Ge; Zhang, Fang; Zhang, Zhifei; Shu, Degan (3 July 2015). "A vanished history of skeletonization in Cambrian comb jellies". Science Advances. 1 (6) e1500092. American Association for the Advancement of Science. Bibcode:2015SciA....1E0092O. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500092. eISSN 2375-2548. PMC 4646772. PMID 26601209. S2CID 390519.