Ambulacraria
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| Ambulacrarians Temporal range: Late Ediacaran - Recent |
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| Various sea stars and sea urchins among mussel shells in the rocky intertidal zone of Kachemak Bay. | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| (unranked): | Bilateria |
| Superphylum: | Ambulacraria |
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Ambulacraria is a clade of invertebrate phyla which includes echinoderms, hemichordates, and Xenoturbellida; a member of this group is called an ambulacrarian. The superphylum, Ambulacraria, is largely identical to the superphylum Deuterostomia, except the phyla Chordata and Vetulicolia are excluded.
The three living phyla, with representative organisms, are:
- Phylum Echinodermata (sea stars, sea urchins, brittle stars, sea cucumbers, feather stars, sea lilies, etc.)
- Phylum Hemichordata (acorn worms, Pterobranchia, and possibly graptolites)
- Phylum Xenoturbellida (two species of worm-like animals)
Fossil taxa that may lie on the stem lineage:
- ?Superphylum Ambulacraria#
- unranked clade Cambroernida
- unranked clade = Eldoniida
- † Herpetogaster Caron, Conway Morris & Shu, 2010[1] - with one species: † Herpetogaster collinsi Caron, Conway Morris & Shu, 2010[1]
- unranked clade Cambroernida
References [edit]
- ^ a b Caron, J.; Conway Morris, S.; Shu, D.; Soares, D. (2010). "Tentaculate fossils from the Cambrian of Canada (British Columbia) and China (Yunnan) interpreted as primitive deuterostomes". In Soares, Daphne. PLoS ONE 5 (3): e9586. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009586. PMC 2833208. PMID 20221405.
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