Stromatoveris
Extinct genus of invertebrates
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Stromatoveris psygmoglena is a genus of fossil organism from the Chengjiang deposits of Yunnan that was originally aligned with the fossil Charnia (strictly, the Charniomorpha) from the Ediacara biota.[1] However, such an affinity was thought to be developmentally implausible and so S. psygmoglena was thought to be either a sessile basal ctenophore, or a sessile organism closely related to ctenophores instead.[2] Nevertheless, a 2018 phylogenetic analysis by Jennifer Hoyal Cuthill and Jian Han indicated that Stromatoveris was a member of Animalia and closely related to ediacaran frond-like lifeforms.[3][4]
| Stromatoveris Temporal range: Cambrian | |
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| Artist reconstruction as a sessile basal ctenophore | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | †Petalonamae |
| Genus: | †Stromatoveris Shu et al. 2006 |
| Species: | †S. psygmoglena |
| Binomial name | |
| †Stromatoveris psygmoglena Shu et al. 2006 | |
