Yarnemia
| Yarnemia Temporal range:
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| reconstruction as a tunicate-like animal | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Subphylum: | Tunicata (?) |
| Genus: | †Yarnemia Nesov in Chistyakov et al., 1984 |
| Species: | †Y. ascidiformis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Yarnemia ascidiformis Nesov in Chistyakov et al., 1984
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Yarnemia ascidiformis is a fossil tentatively classified as a tunicate. While Y. ascidiformis looks similar to tunicates, the oldest unequivocal tunicate, Shankouclava[1] dates to the Cambrian period, while Y. ascidiformis is Ediacaran in age.[2][3]
Etymology
[edit]The generic name Yarnemia comes from the village of Yarnema near which the first specimens were found. The specific epithet, ascidiformis, refers to the likeness to ascidians.
See also
[edit]Other Ediacaran biota tentatively identified as tunicates include
References
[edit]- ^ Chen, Jun-Yuan, et al. "The first tunicate from the Early Cambrian of South China." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 100.14 (2003): 8314-8318.
- ^ University of California Museum of Paleontology Berkeley
- ^ Chistyakov, V.G.; Kalmykova, N.A.; Nesov, L.A. & Suslov, G.A. (1984). "О наличии вендских отложений в среднем течении р. Онеги и возможном существовании оболочечников (Tunicata: Chordata) в докембрии" [On the Presence of Vendian Deposits in the Middle Course of the Onega River and Presumable Existence of Tunica (Tunicata: Chordata) in Precambrian] (PDF). Vest. Leningrad. Gos. Univ. (LGU) (in Russian). 6: 11–19. Archived from the original (PDF) on February 7, 2007.
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