Fasciculus
Extinct genus of comb jellies
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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]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Ctenophora |
| Genus: | †Fasciculus Simonetta & Delle Cave, 1978 |
| Species: | †F. vesanus |
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| †Fasciculus vesanus Simonetta & Delle Cave, 1978 | |
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.
See also
Maotianshan shales ctenophores
- Maotianoascus octonarius
- Sinoascus paillatus
- Daihua sanqiong
- Xianguangia sinica
