Scleroctenophora
| Scleroctenophora Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
 | |
| Artist’s reconstruction of Maotianoascus octonarius | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Ctenophora |
| Class: | †Scleroctenophora Ou et al., 2015 |
| Genera | |
Scleroctenophora is an extinct class of stem group[1][2][3] ctenophores, known from the Chinese Maotianshan shales of Yunnan.[4] It is dated to Cambrian Stage 3 and belongs to late Early Cambrian strata. Scleroctenophorans are easily distinguished from other ctenophores by the presence of an internal non-mineralized skeleton that supports the body.[5]
References
- ↑ Zhao, Yang; Vinther, Jakob; Parry, Luke A.; Wei, Fan; Green, Emily; Pisani, Davide; Hou, Xianguang; Edgecombe, Gregory D.; Cong, Peiyun (2019). "Cambrian Sessile, Suspension Feeding Stem-Group Ctenophores and Evolution of the Comb Jelly Body Plan". Current Biology. 29 (7): 1112–1125.e2. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2019.02.036. hdl:1983/40a6bcb8-a740-482c-a23c-7d563faea5c5. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
- ↑ Parry, Luke A.; Lerosey-Aubril, Rudy; Weaver, James C.; Ortega-Hernández, Javier (2021). "Cambrian comb jellies from Utah illuminate the early evolution of nervous and sensory systems in ctenophores". iScience. 24 (9) 102943. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2021.102943. PMC 8426560. PMID 34522849. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
- ↑ Klug, Christian; Kerr, Johanne; Lee, Michael S. Y.; Cloutier, Richard (2021-09-24). "A late-surviving stem-ctenophore from the Late Devonian of Miguasha (Canada)" (PDF). Scientific Reports. 11 (1). doi:10.1038/s41598-021-98362-5. ISSN 2045-2322. PMC 8463547. PMID 34561497. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
- ↑ "WoRMS - World Register of Marine Species - Scleroctenophora †". www.marinespecies.org. Archived from the original on 2017-11-01. Retrieved 2019-03-11.
- ↑ 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.