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Extinct genus of worms

Gangtoucunia
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 4 PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Genus: †Gangtoucunia
Species: †G. aspera
Binomial name
†Gangtoucunia aspera
Luo & Hu 1999

Gangtoucunia is a genus of tube worm-like animals, known from the Cambrian aged Wulongqing Formation of Yunnan, China. While originally considered to be of uncertain affinites, specimens described in 2022 preserving the soft-tissue anatomy suggests that it was a cnidarian belonging to Medusozoa.

References

  1. Zhang, Guangxu; Parry, Luke A.; Vinther, Jakob; Ma, Xiaoya (2022-11-09). "Exceptional soft tissue preservation reveals a cnidarian affinity for a Cambrian phosphatic tubicolous enigma". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 289 (1986): 20221623. doi:10.1098/rspb.2022.1623. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 9627713.
  2. University of Oxford (5 November 2022). "500 Million Year-Old Fossils Solve a Centuries-Old Riddle in the Evolution of Life on Earth". SciTechDaily. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
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Gangtoucunia
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