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Cheungkongella

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Ascidiacea

Phylum
  
Chordata

Subphylum
  
Tunicata

Species
  
†C. ancestralis

Rank
  
Genus

Cheungkongella httpsuploadwikimediaorgwikipediacommons22

Similar
  
Cathaymyrus, Yunnanozoon, Haikouella, Enterogona, Eoredlichia

Cheungkongella ancestralis is a tunicate-like organism from the Lower Cambrian Haikou Chengjiang deposits of China. It was originally described as a tunicate, though, this identification has been questioned, especially with the discovery of another Chengjiang tunicate, Shankouclava. This challenge to Cheungkongella being a tunicate has led some experts to reassess it as a cambroernid related to Eldonia, Herpetogaster, and most closely to Phlogites, to which it has been subjectively synonymized as.

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Cheungkongella Wikipedia