Gemmactena

Gemmactena
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Ctenophora
Class: Scleroctenophora
Genus:
Species:
G. actinala
Binomial name
Gemmactena actinala
Ou et. al., 2015

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

  1. ^ 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.