Daihuoides

Daihuoides
Temporal range:
Late Devonian (middle Frasnian),
approx.
Photographs and drawings of the holotype, MHNM 24-01
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Ctenophora
Stem group: Ctenophora
Family: Dinomischidae (?)
Genus: Daihuoides
Klug et al., 2021
Species:
D. jakobvintheri
Binomial name
Daihuoides jakobvintheri
Klug et al., 2021

Daihuoides is an extinct monotypic genus of stem-group ctenophores (possibly a “dinomischid”) that lived in what is now Quebec, Canada during the Late Devonian period, around 375 million years ago. It contains a single species, D. jakobvintheri.