Stromatoveris Temporal range: Cambrian
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Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | † Petalonamae |
Genus: | †
Stromatoveris Shu et al. 2006 |
Species: | †S. psygmoglena
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Binomial name | |
†Stromatoveris psygmoglena Shu et al. 2006
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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. [1] 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. [2] 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. [3] [4]