| Windermeria Temporal range: Ediacaran | |
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| artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | †Proarticulata |
| Class: | †Dipleurozoa |
| Family: | †Dickinsoniidae |
| Genus: | †Windermeria |
| Species: | †W. aitkeni |
| Binomial name | |
| †Windermeria aitkeni Narbonne, 1994[1] | |
Windermeria aitkeni (named after Windermere, British Columbia, Canada) is a Precambrian organism from the Blueflower Formation of Sekwi Brook North, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Only one specimen has been found. Windermeria is a small (16.4 × 7.9 mm) segmented elongated oval fossil with eight nearly equal-sized segments arranged transverse to medial furrow in opposite arrangement.[2] Windermeria superficially resembles a diminutive Dickinsonia and as such is the only possible dickinsoniid proarticulatan known exclusively from outside of Australia and East Europe.[3]
See also
References
- ↑ Narbonne, G. M. (1994). "New Ediacaran fossils from the Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada". Journal of Paleontology. 63 (3): 411–416. JSTOR 1306192.
- ↑ Fedonkin M.A., Gehling J.G., Grey K., Narbonne G.M., Vickers-Rich P. (2007). "The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia", Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 292
- ↑ Narbonne G.M. (2007). "Chapter 10. The Canadian Cordillera". In: Fedonkin M.A., Gehling J.G., Grey K., Narbonne G.M., Vickers-Rich P. "The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia", Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 180
External links
- Queen's University Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering Museum archived from the original
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