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Maotianoascus

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Maotianoascus
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Ctenophora
Class: Scleroctenophora
Genus: Maotianoascus
Chen & Zhou, 1997
Species:
M. octonarius
Binomial name
Maotianoascus octonarius
Chen & Zhou, 1997

Maotianoascus octonarius is an extinct species of stem-group ctenophore, known from the Chinese Maotianshan shales of Yunnan.[1] It is dated to Cambrian Stage 3 and belongs to late Early Cambrian strata.

The species is remarkable for its set of eight massive lobes.

References

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  1. ^ Chen, Jun-Yuan; Schopf, J. William; Bottjer, David J.; Zhang, Chen-Yu; Kudryavtsev, Anatoliy B.; Tripathi, Abhishek B.; Wang, Xiu-Qiang; Yang, Yong-Hua; Gao, Xiang (2007). "Raman Spectra of a Lower Cambrian Ctenophore Embryo from Southwestern Shaanxi, China". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 104 (15): 6289–6292. Bibcode:2007PNAS..104.6289C. doi:10.1073/pnas.0701246104. ISSN 0027-8424. JSTOR 25427370. PMC 1847456. PMID 17404242.