Cheungkongella

Cheungkongella Temporal range: Chengjiang PreЄ Є O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
Artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Chordata
Subphylum:	Tunicata
Class:	Ascidiacea
Genus:	†Cheungkongella Shu et al. 2001
Species:	†C. ancestralis
Binomial name
Cheungkongella ancestralis

Cheungkongella ancestralis is a tunicate-like organism from the Lower Cambrian Haikou Chengjiang deposits of China. It was originally described as a tunicate, though, this identification has been questioned, especially with the discovery of another Chengjiang tunicate, Shankouclava. This challenge to Cheungkongella being a tunicate has led some experts to reassess it as a cambroernid related to Eldonia, Herpetogaster, and most closely to Phlogites, to which it has been subjectively synonymized as.