This question is discussed by Bucknell in his Conditioned Arising Evolves: Variation and Change in Textual Accounts of the Paticca-samuppada Doctrine:
https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/rebirth-consciousness-in-the-dependent-origination/3019/7
This question is discussed by Bucknell in his Conditioned Arising Evolves: Variation and Change in Textual Accounts of the Paticca-samuppada Doctrine:
https://discourse.suttacentral.net/t/rebirth-consciousness-in-the-dependent-origination/3019/7