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.
