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Fasciculus

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Fasciculus
Temporal range: 515–505 Ma
Artist's reconstruction
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Ctenophora
Genus: Fasciculus
Simonetta & Delle Cave, 1978
Species:
F. vesanus
Binomial name
Fasciculus vesanus

Fasciculus vesanus is an extinct species of stem-group ctenophores known from the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. It is dated to 515 to 505 million years ago and belongs to middle Cambrian strata.[1]

The species is remarkable for its two sets of long and short comb rows, not seen in similar form elsewhere in the fossil record or among modern species.

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References

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  1. ^ S. Conway Morris & D. H. Collins (1996). "Middle Cambrian ctenophores from the Stephen Formation, British Columbia, Canada". Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 351 (1337): 243–360. doi:10.1098/rstb.1996.0024. JSTOR 56388.
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