Gangtoucunia

Gangtoucunia Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 4 PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Life restoration
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Genus:	† Gangtoucunia
Species:	†G. aspera
Binomial name
†Gangtoucunia aspera Luo & Hu 1999

Gangtoucunia is a genus of tube worm-like animals, known from the Cambrian aged Wulongqing Formation of Yunnan, China. While originally considered to be of uncertain affinites, specimens described in 2022 preserving the soft-tissue anatomy suggests that it was a cnidarian belonging to Medusozoa. ^{[1] [2]}

References

1. Zhang, Guangxu; Parry, Luke A.; Vinther, Jakob; Ma, Xiaoya (2022-11-09). "Exceptional soft tissue preservation reveals a cnidarian affinity for a Cambrian phosphatic tubicolous enigma". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 289 (1986) 20221623. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2022.1623 . ISSN   0962-8452. PMC   9627713 .
2. University of Oxford (5 November 2022). "500 Million Year-Old Fossils Solve a Centuries-Old Riddle in the Evolution of Life on Earth". SciTechDaily . Retrieved 7 November 2022.