Saccorhytus
Extinct monospecific genus of Ediacaran Ecdysozoan / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Saccorhytus (from Latin saccus "bag" and Ancient Greek ῥύτις rhytis "wrinkle") is an extinct genus of animal possibly belonging to the superphylum Ecdysozoa,[3] and it is represented by a single species, Saccorhytus coronarius (from Latin attributive coronarius "[of a] crown"). The organism lived approximately 540 million years ago in the beginning of the Cambrian period. Initially proposed as a deuterostome, which would make it the oldest known species of this superphylum,[4][5] it has since been determined to belong to a protostome group called the ecdysozoans.[6]
Saccorhytus | |
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Reconstruction of Saccorhytus coronarius | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Superphylum: | Ecdysozoa |
Phylum: | †Saccorhytida |
Family: | †Saccorhytidae Han et al., 2017 |
Genus: | †Saccorhytus Han et al., 2017 |
Species: | †S. coronarius |
Binomial name | |
†Saccorhytus coronarius Han et al., 2017 | |
Fossils of the species were first discovered in the Kuanchuanpu Formation of Shaanxi province of China by a team of scientists from the United Kingdom, China and Germany,[4] and the findings were first published in January 2017.[2][7]