Xanioascus

Xanioascus

Taxobox
name = "Xanioascus canadensis"
status = fossil
fossil_range = Mid Cambrian
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Ctenophora
genus = "Xanioascus"
species = "X. canadensis"
binomial = "Xanioascus canadensis"

"Xanioascus canadensis" is an extinct ctenophore, known from the Canadian Burgess Shale in British Columbia. The species which is about 512 million years old had 24 comb rows - in contrast to all modern forms which have only 8.

Other important Cambrian ctenophore fossils are "Fasciculus vesanus" and "Ctenorhabdotus capulus".


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