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Podolimirus is an extinct monotypic genus of unclassified proarticulates. It presents a single species, Podolimirus mirus. It was found in strata of the late Ediacaran, at the beginning of the Cambrian.[1] It is one of the last proarticulates.[1] The first fossils of this genus and species were found in the Ukraine along the Dneister River close by to the deposits in the Vendian Sequence in 1983.[2]
Discovery
The first fossil specimens of P. mirus were found and described in the Dniester River of Ukraine, near the deposits in the Vendian Sequence by Mikhail A Fedokin in the year of 1983.[2]
See also
References
- 1 2 Taphonomy of the Ediacaran Podolimirus and associated dipleurozoans from the Vendian of Ukraine
- 1 2 Fedonkin, Mikhail A.; Sciences), Mikhail A. (Head Fedonkin, Laboratory of Precambrian Organisms Russian Academy of; Gehling, James G.; Museum), James G. (Senior Curator Gehling, retired 6 27 2019 South Australian; Grey, Kathleen; Narbonne, Guy M.; Vickers Rich, Patricia; University), Patricia (Director Vickers-Rich, Monash (Mar 16, 2007). The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota. JHU Press. ISBN 9781862392335. Retrieved July 10, 2022 – via Google Books.
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