Biology:Rotadiscus

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Short description: Extinct genus of disc-shaped animal

Rotadiscus
Temporal range: Early Cambrian – Middle Cambrian[1]
Rotadiscus grandis.jpg
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Stem group: Ambulacraria
Clade: Cambroernida
Family: Rotadiscidae
Genus: Rotadiscus

Rotadiscus is a genus of discoidal animal known from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota[2] and classified with the eldoniids.[3]

As with other eldoniids, it was originally thought to have been pelagic, but is now thought to be benthic.

A 2023 cladistic analysis based on new fossils places Rotadiscus, along with other eldoniids, as stem-group ambulacrarians.[4]

References

  1. CHEN, J-Y.; M-Y. ZHU; G. Q. ZHOU (1995). "The early Cambrian medusiform metazoan Eldonia from the Chengjiang Lagerstätte.". Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 40: 213–244. http://www.app.pan.pl/archive/published/app40/app40-213.pdf. 
  2. Zhu, M.; Zhao, Yuan-Long; Chen, Jun-Yuan (2002). "Révision des animaux discoïdes cambriens Stellostomites eumorphus et Pararotadiscus guizhouensis de Chine du Sud". Geobios 35 (2): 165–185. doi:10.1016/S0016-6995(02)00025-6. 
  3. Caron, J.; Conway Morris, S.; Shu, D.; Soares, D. (2010). Soares, Daphne. ed. "Tentaculate fossils from the Cambrian of Canada (British Columbia) and China (Yunnan) interpreted as primitive deuterostomes". PLOS ONE 5 (3): e9586. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009586. PMID 20221405. Bibcode2010PLoSO...5.9586C. 
  4. Li, Yujing; Dunn, Frances S.; Murdock, Duncan J.E.; Guo, Jin; Rahman, Imran A.; Cong, Peiyun (May 10, 2023). "Cambrian stem-group ambulacrarians and the nature of the ancestral deuterostome". Current Biology. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.048. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.04.048. Retrieved 11 May 2023. 

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