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ArticleScientific reports2021

A late-surviving stem-ctenophore from the Late Devonian of Miguasha (Canada).

Christian Klug, Johanne Kerr, Michael S Y Lee, Richard Cloutier

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Article in Scientific reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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  1. Ctenophora: Illustrated Guide and Taxonomy.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024
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Christian KlugPaläontologisches Institut und Museum, Universität Zürich, Karl-Schmid-Strasse 4, 8006, Zurich, Switzerland.
Johanne KerrParc national de Miguasha, 231 Route de Miguasha Ouest, Nouvelle, QC, G0C 2E0, Canada.
Michael S Y LeeCollege of Science and Engineering, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Richard CloutierDépartement de Biologie, Chimie et Géographie, Université du Québec à Rimouski, 300 allée des Ursulines, Rimouski, QC, G5L 3A1, Canada. richard_cloutier@uqar.ca.

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Abstract

Like other soft-bodied organisms, ctenophores (comb jellies) produce fossils only under exceptional taphonomic conditions. Here, we present the first record of a Late Devonian ctenophore from the Escuminac Formation from Miguasha in eastern Canada. Based on the 18-fold symmetry of this disc-shaped fossil, we assign it to the total-group Ctenophora. Our phylogenetic analyses suggest that the new taxon Daihuoides jakobvintheri gen. et sp. nov. falls near Cambrian stem ctenophores such as 'dinomischids' and 'scleroctenophorans'. Accordingly, Daihuoides is a Lazarus-taxon, which post-dates its older relatives by over 140 million years, and overlaps temporally with modern ctenophores, whose oldest representatives are known from the Early Devonian. Our analyses also indicate that the fossil record of ctenophores does not provide strong evidence for or against the phylogenomic hypothesis that ctenophores are sister to all other metazoans.

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