Fasciculus Explained

Fasciculus vesanus is an extinct species of stem-group ctenophores known from the Burgess Shale of British Columbia, Canada. It is dated to and belongs to middle Cambrian strata.^[1]

The species is remarkable for its two sets of long and short comb rows, not seen in similar form elsewhere in the fossil record or among modern species.

See also

• Ctenorhabdotus capulus
• Xanioascus canadensis

Maotianshan shales ctenophores

• • Maotianoascus octonarius
  • Sinoascus paillatus
  • Daihua sanqiong
  • Xianguangia sinica
  • Dinomischus venustus
  • Siphusauctum sp.

Devonian ctenophores

• • Paleoctenophora brasseli
  • Archaeocydippida hunsreckiana

Ediacaran/Precambrian ctenophores

• • Eoandromeda octobrachiata
  • Ventogyrus christyakovi

External links

• Web site: 2011. Fasciculus vesanus. Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. https://web.archive.org/web/20201112025257/http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=53. 2020-11-12. dead. 2023-01-21.

Notes and References

1. S. Conway Morris & D. H. Collins . Middle Cambrian ctenophores from the Stephen Formation, British Columbia, Canada . . 1996 . 351 . 1337 . 243–360 . 56388 . 10.1098/rstb.1996.0024 .