Daihua Temporal range:
Cambrian Stage 3,
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Fossil of Daihua sanqiong | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Stem group: | Ctenophora |
Family: | † Dinomischidae |
Genus: | †
Daihua Zhao et al., 2019 |
Species: | †D. sanqiong
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Binomial name | |
†Daihua sanqiong Zhao et al., 2019
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Daihua sanqiong is a possible ancestor of comb jellies. [2] It was a sessile relative to comb jellies. [3] It had combs with cillia just like modern day comb jellies. [3]
It is named after the Dai people. The name means Dai flower. [2]
In 2019, Daihua and other Cambrian forms were hypothesized to be stem-group ctenophores. This leads to the assertion that ctenophores evolved from immotile, suspensivorous forms, a lifestyle similar to that of polyps. [4] Cladogram after Zhao et al., 2019:
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