Yarnemia Temporal range:
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reconstruction as a tunicate-like animal | |
Scientific classification | |
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]