Stromatoveris
Stromatoveris psygmoglena is a genus of basal petalonam from the Chengjiang deposits of Yunnan that was originally aligned with the fossil Charnia (strictly, the Charniomorpha) from the Ediacara biota. 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. Nevertheless, a 2018 phylogenetic analysis by Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill and Jian Han indicated that Stromatoveris was a member of Animalia and closely related to ediacaran frond-like lifeforms.
| Stromatoveris Temporal range: Cambrian | |
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| Artist reconstruction | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Ctenophora |
| Genus: | †Stromatoveris Shu et al. 2006 |
| Species: | †S. psygmoglena |
| Binomial name | |
| †Stromatoveris psygmoglena Shu et al. 2006 | |
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