Gemmactena
| Gemmactena Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Ctenophora |
| Class: | †Scleroctenophora |
| Genus: | † |
| Species: | †G. actinala
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| Binomial name | |
| †Gemmactena actinala Ou et. al., 2015
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Gemmactena is an extinct genus of scleroctenophoran that lived during Cambrian Stage 3.
Distribution
Gemmactena actinala is known from the Heilinpu Formation of China.[1]
References
- ^ 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). Bibcode:2015SciA....1E0092O. doi:10.1126/sciadv.1500092. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 4646772. PMID 26601209.