Ctenoimbricata

Ctenoimbricata is an extinct genus of bilaterally symmetrical echinoderm, which lived during the early Middle Cambrian period of what is now Spain.[1] It contains one species, Ctenoimbricata spinosa. It may be the most basal known echinoderm. It resembles the extinct ctenocystoids and cinctans, particularly the basal ctenocystoid Courtessolea. Ctenoimbricata is interpreted as a deposit-feeding pharyngeal basket feeder. It was relatively small, with a body 20 millimetres (0.79 in) long.

Ctenoimbricata
Temporal range:
Artist's restoration
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Clade: Ambulacraria
Phylum: Echinodermata
Genus: †Ctenoimbricata
Zamora, Rahman, and Smith 2012
Type species
Ctenoimbricata spinosa
Zamora, Rahman, and Smith 2012

References
  1. Zamora, Samuel; Rahman, Imran A.; Smith, Andrew B. (2012-06-06). Keith A. Crandall (ed.). "Plated Cambrian bilaterians reveal the earliest stages of echinoderm evolution". PLoS ONE. 7 (6): –38296. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0038296. ISSN 1932-6203.


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