Pedunculotheca
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| Pedunculotheca Temporal range:
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| Scientific classification Edit this classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Class: | †Hyolitha |
| Order: | †Orthothecida |
| Genus: | †Pedunculotheca |
| Species: | †P. diania
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| Binomial name | |
| †Pedunculotheca diania Sun, Zhao & Zhu 2018[1]
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Pedunculotheca is a genus of orthothecid hyolith known from the Chengjiang biota of China, notable for its possession of a pedunculate attachment structure likened to the brachiopod pedicle.[1]
On account of this pedicle and its flattened larval shell, it is reconstructed as the earliest diverging hyolith, and a model for the ancestral morphology of this lineage of stem-group brachiopods.[1]
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