Protocinctus
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| Protocinctus Temporal range: Miaolingian (Wuliuan),
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| Ventral view of a specimen of Protocinctus mansillaensis | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | †Cincta |
| Family: | †Sucocystidae |
| Genus: | †Protocinctus Rahman & Zamora, 2009 |
| Species: | †P. mansillaensis
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| †Protocinctus mansillaensis Rahman & Zamora, 2009
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Protocinctus is the oldest recognized genus of cinctan[1], known from the Wuliuan age of the Mansilla Formation, Zaragoza, Spain.[2]
The genus bears a combination of characters unique to cinctans, with an elongated oval-shaped theca with a single anterior left marginal feeding groove, and a posterior marginal frame open in posterior ventral view.[2]
Like other cinctans, they would have been active pharyngeal filter feeders. The animal would lay close to the sediment surface with the anterior region oriented downstream and generate an inhalant flow of water directing suspended food particles to the mouth.[3]
References
- ^ Zamora, Samuel; Wright, David F.; Nohejlová, Martina (2023). "Phylogenetic position of Bohemiacinctus gen. nov. (Echinodermata, Cincta) from the Cambrian of Bohemia: implications for macroevolution and the role of taxon sampling in palaeobiological systematics". Papers in Palaeontology. 9 (1): e1482. doi:10.1002/spp2.1482. ISSN 2056-2802.
- ^ a b Rahman, Imran A; Zamora, Samuel (2009-10). "The oldest cinctan carpoid (stem-group Echinodermata), and the evolution of the water vascular system". Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. 157 (2): 420–432. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.2008.00517.x.
{{cite journal}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Rahman, Imran A.; Zamora, Samuel; Falkingham, Peter L.; Phillips, Jeremy C. (2015-11-07). "Cambrian cinctan echinoderms shed light on feeding in the ancestral deuterostome". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 282 (1818): 20151964. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.1964. PMC 4650160. PMID 26511049.
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