Iotuba
| Iotuba chengjiangensis Temporal range: Chengjiang | |
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| Type specimen of Iotuba. From [1] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Iotuba |
| Species: | †I. chengjiangensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Iotuba chengjiangensis Chen et Zhou 1997 [2] | |
Iotuba chengjiangensis is a problematic Cambrian fossil with a U-shaped gut and tentacles, known from the Chengjiang biota. Originally interpreted as a phoronid, its affinity is currently disputed.[3] It, and the possibly-synonymous taxon Eophoronis, resemble the 'priapulid' Louisella.[4]
References
- ↑ Chen, J.-Y. & Zhou, G.-Q. 1997 Biology of the Chengjiang Fauna. Bull. Natl. Museum Nat. Sci. 10, 11–105.
- ↑ Chen, J.-Y. & Zhou, G.-Q. 1997 Biology of the Chengjiang Fauna. Bull. Natl. Museum Nat. Sci. 10, 11–105.
- ↑ DY Huang, J Vannier, JY Chen (2004). "Anatomy and lifestyles of Early Cambrian priapulid worms exemplified by Corynetis and Anningvermis from the Maotianshan Shale (SW China)". Lethaia.
- ↑ Conway Morris, S. (2006). "Darwin's dilemma: the realities of the Cambrian 'explosion'". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 361 (1470): 1069–1083. doi:10.1098/rstb.2006.1846. PMC 1578734free to read. PMID 16754615
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