A sclerite-bearing stem group entoproct from the early Cambrian and its implicationsShow others and affiliations
2013 (English)In: Scientific Reports, E-ISSN 2045-2322, Vol. 3, p. 1-7, article id 1066
Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
The Lophotrochozoa includes disparate tentacle-bearing sessile protostome animals, which apparently appeared in the Cambrian explosion, but lack an uncontested fossil record. Here we describe abundant well preserved material of Cotyledion tylodes Luo et Hu, 1999, from the Cambrian (Series 2) Chengjiang deposits, reinterpreted here as a stem-group entoproct. The entoproct affinity is supported by the sessile body plan and interior soft anatomy. The body consists of an upper calyx and a lower elongate stalk with a distal holdfast. The soft anatomy includes a U-shaped gut with a mouth and aboral anus ringed by retractable marginal tentacles. Cotyledion differs from extant entoprocts in being larger, and having the calyx and the stalk covered by numerous loosely-spaced external sclerites. The description of entoprocts from the Chengjiang biota traces the ancestry of yet another lophotrochozoan phylum back to the Cambrian radiation, and has important implications for the earliest evolution of lophotrochozoans.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
London: Nature Publishing Group, 2013. Vol. 3, p. 1-7, article id 1066
Keywords [en]
Phylogenetics, Origin of life, Palaeoecology, Palaeontology
National Category
Geology Other Earth Sciences
Research subject
The changing Earth; Ecosystems and species history
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:nrm:diva-870DOI: 10.1038/srep01066OAI: oai:DiVA.org:nrm-870DiVA, id: diva2:764656
Projects
Origin and early evolution of major animal clades in the Cambrian Period
Funder
Swedish Research Council, 2009–4395Swedish Research Council, 2012–1658
Note
Also funded by: the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant 41072017 and 40830208), the 973 Project (2013CB835002), the Programme of Introducing Talents of Discipline to Universities (P201102007), Australian Research Council Discovery Project (#120104251 to GAB) and the State Key Laboratory of Palaeobiology and Stratigraphy in Nanjing Institute of Geology and Palaeontology, CAS (Grant: 123117, KZCX2-EW-115). Z.F. Zhang also acknowledges financial supports from Ministry of Education of China (FANEDD200936, NCET-11-1046), Postdoctoral Science Foundation (2011M501273), Shaanxi Bureau of Science and Techonology (2011kjxx37, 2011JZ006) and the Fok Ying Tung Education Foundation (G121016)
2014-11-202014-11-202025-09-12Bibliographically approved