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PALAEONTOLOGY
卷 61, 期 6, 页码 813-823出版社
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/pala.12393
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Ediacaran; Cambrian; phylogenetics; Chengjiang; Stromatoveris; Petalonamae
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资金
- Natural Science Foundation of China [41672009, 41621003, 41772010, 41720104002]
- Ministry of Science
- 111 project of Ministry of Education of China [D17013]
- Chinese Academy of Sciences [XDB26000000]
- ELSI Origins Network (EON) Research Fellowship
- John Templeton Foundation
- Palaeontological Association Research Grant [PA-RG201501]
Macro-organisms of the Ediacaran period (635-541Ma) were large and morphologically complex, with some living in aphotic habitats, presenting the possibility that they were early animals. However, bizarre' Ediacaran morphologies and mouldic preservation have frustrated comparison to later taxa. Consequently, both the positions of Ediacaran biota in the tree of life and the origins of the Metazoa have remained disputed. Here we provide phylogenetic evidence to identify Ediacaran macro-biota as animals, based on 206 new fossils of Stromatoveris psygmoglena from the lower Cambrian Chengjiang Lagerstatte. Exceptionally preserved soft-tissue anatomy shows that Stromatoveris was a soft-bodied, radially symmetric animal with multiple, sub-branched petaloids and a differentiated holdfast. Photo-referenced morphological character analysis enables phylogenetic reconstruction of a monophyletic clade designated Petalonamae, that unites Stromatoveris with iconic Ediacaran genera (Rangea, Pteridinium, Ernietta, Swartpuntia, Arborea, Pambikalbae and Dickinsonia) and is placed as sister-group to the Eumetazoa. Therefore, based on phylogenetic bracketing within the Metazoa, the Ediacaran petalonamids are established as animals. From these findings, it follows that petalonamids remained an important component of Cambrian marine ecosystems and that the metazoan radiation can be dated to a minimum age of between 558 and 571myr.
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