| Daihua
Temporal range: Cambrian Stage 3, 518 Ma[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Stem group: | Ctenophora |
| Family: | †Dinomischidae |
| Genus: | †Daihua Zhao et al., 2019 |
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†D. sanqiong
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| †Daihua sanqiong Zhao et al., 2019 | |
Daihua sanqiong is a possible ancestor of comb jellies.[2] It was a sessile relative to comb jellies.[3] It had combs with cillia just like modern day comb jellies.[3]
It is named after the Dai people. The name means Dai flower.[2]
In 2019, Daihua and other Cambrian forms were hypothesized to be stem-group ctenophores. This leads to the assertion that ctenophores evolved from immotile, suspensivorous forms, a lifestyle similar to that of polyps.[4] Cladogram after Zhao et al., 2019:
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