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Extinct genus of marine invertebrates

Ctenoimbricata
Temporal range: Wuliuan PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Clade: Ambulacraria
Phylum: Echinodermata
Genus: †Ctenoimbricata
Zamora, Rahman, and Smith 2012
Type species
Ctenoimbricata spinosa
Zamora, Rahman, and Smith 2012

Ctenoimbricata is an extinct genus of bilaterally symmetrical echinoderm, which lived during the early Middle Cambrian period of what is now Spain. It contains one species, Ctenoimbricata spinosa. It may be the most basal known echinoderm. It resembles the extinct ctenocystoids and cinctans, particularly the basal ctenocystoid Courtessolea. Ctenoimbricata is interpreted as a deposit-feeding pharyngeal basket feeder. It was relatively small, with a body 20 millimetres (0.79 in) long.

References

  1. Zamora, Samuel; Rahman, Imran A.; Smith, Andrew B. (2012-06-06). "Plated Cambrian bilaterians reveal the earliest stages of echinoderm evolution". PLoS ONE. 7 (6). Keith A. Crandall (ed.): –38296. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038296. ISSN 1932-6203. PMC 3368939.
Taxon identifiers
Ctenoimbricata


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