Daihua
Daihua sanqiong is a possible ancestor of comb jellies. It was a sessile relative to comb jellies. It had combs with cillia just like modern day comb jellies.
| Daihua Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3, | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Ctenophora (?) |
| Genus: | †Daihua Zhao et al., 2019 |
| Species: | †D. sanqiong |
| Binomial name | |
| †Daihua sanqiong Zhao et al., 2019 | |
It is named after the Dai people. The name means Dai flower.
In 2019, Daihua and other Cambrian forms were hypothesized to be stem-group ctenophores. This leads to the assertion that ctenophores evolved from immotile, suspensivorous forms, a lifestyle similar to that of polyps. Cladogram after Zhao et al., 2019:
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