Ediacaran (Vendian) Fauna

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Ediacaran (Vendian) Fauna - Species list

Albumares brunae Holotype. Australia, Russia
Anabylia improvisa Siberia
Andiva ivantsovi Australia, Russia Wikipedia image Italian Journal of Zoology
Anfesta stankovskii Australia, Russia
"Arborea arborea" (holotype) Rawnsley Quartzite, Ediacara Hills, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. (aka Charniodiscus arborea, C. concentricus, Rangea arborea, etc) Australia
Archaeaspinus fedonkini Holotype. Australia, Russia
"Archaeaspis" fedonkini" See Archaeaspinus fedonkini
Archangelia valdaica Holotype Russia
Arkarua adami (holotype), Chace Range & Devil's Peak, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Ediacaran member, Rawnsley Quartzite, Wilpena Group. Disc- to hemispherical shape with an opening formed of 5-pointed star-shape of grooves. They have a segmented rim formed by shallow depression with an outer ridge. and are almost of polygonal shape when flattened. Alchuringa
Armillifera parva Holotype Russia
Arumberia banksii Australia, England, Wales, Russia, Ukraine, Channel Islands, Newfoundland, France, Namibia.
Ediacaran and Early Cambrian of Arumbera Sandstone & Central Mt Stuart Formation, Northern Territory, Pound Subgroup & Billy Creek Formation, Flinders Ranges of South Australia; Longmyndian of England and Wales; White Sea, Russia; Urals, Podolia, Ukraine; northern France and the Channel Islands (probably Early Cambrian); Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland; southern Namibia. Shallow grooves with inner and outer walls separating a series of rectilinear ribs that radiate from a gently sloping elevation.
Askinica dimerus Urals
Aspidella costata Siberia, Urals.
Aspidella Hatyspytia Holotype. Siberia
Aspidella terranovica Australia, Newfoundland. Wikipedia Palaeontology
Ausia fenestrata Holotype. Namibia
Baikalina sessillis Lake Baikal, Russia
Barmia lobatus Urals
"Beltanella gilesi" Holotype Australia, Canada. Peabody Museum of Natural History Earth-Science Reviews
"Beltanella podolica" Holotype. Ukraine See Bronicella podolica
Beltanella zimimica Urals
Beltanelliformis brunsae Australia, Canada, Namibia, Russia, China, India
Beltanelloides sorichevae Russia, Ukraine, Podolia, Spain, Urals
Bergaueria sp. Australia Precambrian Research Geological Magazine
Blackbrookia oakei Holotype England
Bomakellia kelleri Holotype. Russia
Bonata septata Russia
Brachina delicatea Holotype Australia
Bradgatia linfordensis England, Newfloundland, Canada
Bronicella podolica Holtoype. Ukraine
"Charnia grandis" England
Charnia masoni Holotype. England, Newfoundland, Russia, Siberia, AustraliaCanada, etc.
"Charnia siberica" Holotype. Siberia
Charnia wardi Holotype. Newfoundland
Charniodiscus arboreus, Australia, Newfoundland, Uttar Pradesh, India. A frond-like Ediacaran fossil from the Ediacaran Member, Rawnsley Quartzite, Bunyeroo Gorge, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Newfoundland specimen. Wikipedia Australia, Russia, Journal of Paleontology
Charniodiscus concentricus Holotype. Australia, England
Charniodiscus longus Holotype. Australia, Russia
Charniodiscus oppositus Australia, Russia, Ukraine
Charniodiscus planus Holotype. Ukraine
Charniodiscus procerus Newfoundland
Charniodiscus spinosus Newfoundland
Chondroplon bilobatum Holotype Australia, Russia
Cloudina sp. China, Siberia, Canada, Namibia, global
Conomedusites lobatus Holotype Australia, India, Ukraine, Russia
Corumbella werneri Brazil, USA
Cyanonorus singularis Holotype. Russia
Cyclomedusa cliffi Holotype. England
"Cyclomedusa davidi" Australia, Russia, Ukraine, England, Canada, Urals, Newfoundland, India Precambrian research
Cyclomedusa delicata Russia. See Aspidella terranovica
"Cyclomedusa gigantea" Australia
"Cyclomedusa minuta" Russia
"Cyclomedusa plana" see Aspidella terranovica Australia, Russia, Ukraine, Canada
"Cyclomedusa radiata" Australia, Russia, Ukraine
Cyclomedusa serebrina Holotype. Ukraine
Dickinsonia brachina Holotype Australia
Dickinsonia costata Australia, Russia, Ukraine. material from the Ediacaran Hills site in South Australia in the Natural History Museum, Oxford, has found that all the characteristics of the Dickinsonia can be explained by the hypothesis that its body was based on a simple hydraulic system, such as that found in coelenterates where movement is achieved by changes in turgor pressure in the body
"Dickinsonia elongata" Australia
Dickinsonia lissa Australia
"Dickinsonia minima" Holotype Australia
Dickinsonia rex Holotype Australia
"Dickinsonia spriggi" Holotype Australia
Dickinsonia tenuis Australia, Russia, Ukraine
"Ediacara" booleyi" Ireland
"Ediacaria flindersi" see Aspidella terranovica Austrlaia, Russia, Ukraine, Siberia, Canada
Elasenia aseevae Holotype Ukraine
Elasenia uralica Holotype Urals
Eoporpita medusa Australia, Russia, Urals, Canada
Epibaion axiferus Holotype Russia
Erniaster apertus Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
Erniaster patellus Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
Ernietta sp. Russia
"Ernietta aarensis" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
Ernietta plateauensis Namibia Geology
"Ernietta tschanabis" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniobaris baroides" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniobaris epistula" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniobaris gula" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniobaris parietalis" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniobeta forensis" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniobeta scapulosa" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniocarpis carpoides" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniocarpis sermo" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniocentris centriformis" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniocoris orbitiformis" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniodiscus clypeus" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniodiscus rutilis" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniofossa prognatha" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniograndis paraglossa" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniograndis sandalix" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Ernionorma abyssoides" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Ernionorma clausula" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Ernionorma corrector" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Ernionorma peltis" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Ernionorma tribunalis" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniopelta scrupula" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
"Erniotaxis segmentrix" Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
Evmiaksia aksionovi Holotype Russia
Garania petali Holotype Urals
Gehlingia dibrachida Holotype Australia
Glaessneria imperfecta Holotype Ukraine
"Glaessneria" plana Cosmopolitan
"Glaessneria" radiata cosmopolitan
Glaessneria siberica See Charnia masoni
"Glasneria" grandis" Holotype Australia See Charnia masoni
"Glassnerina longa" Holotype Australia, Ukraine, Newfoundland, same specimen as (Charniodiscus longus)
"Hagenetta aarensis" Namibia See Beltanelliformis brunsae
Hallidaya brueri Australia
Hiemalora sp. Newfoundland
Hiemalora pleiomorpha Siberia, Canada
Hiemalora stellaris Australia, Russia, Siberia, Ukraine
Ichnusa cocozzi Sardinia
Inaria karli Holotype Australia
Inaria n sp. Russia
"Inkryovia lata" Russia, Canada
Intrites punctatus Russia, Urals
"Irridinitus multirafiatus" Holotype Russia, Ukraine, India, Canada
Ivesheadia lobata Australia, England, Newfoundland
"Ivesia" lobata" see Ivesheadia lobata
Ivovicia rugulosa Holotype Russia
"Jampolium wyrzhykoowskii" Russia, Urals
Kaisalia levis Holotype Ukrane
Kaisalia mensee Holotype Russia
Kharakhtia nessovi Holotype Russia
Khatyspytia grandis Holotype Siberia
Kimberella quadrata Holotype Australia, Russia, India
Kuibisia glabra Holotype Namibia
Kullingia concentrica Sweden, Siberia, Canada
Lamosovis malus Holotype Australia, Ukraine
"Lorenzinites rarus" See Rugoconites enigmaticus
Lossina lissetskii Russia
"Madigania annulata" Holotype Australia
Marywadia ovata Holotype Australia
Mawsonites randellensis Australia
Mawsonites spriggi Holotype Australia Mawsonites spriggi is one of the most complex appearing of the Ediacaran Fauna. It is about 10 cm in diameter, with the appearance of a jellyfish, a concentric ring of blob-like lobes radiating out from the centre.
"Medusina asteroides" see Medusinites asteroides Australia, Russia
"Medusina filamentus" see Medusinites asteroides Australia
"Medusina mawsoni" Holotype Australia
Medusinites applanatus Urals
Medusinites asteroides Australia, Russia, Ukraine, Urals, Canada, Wales
Medusinites paliji Holotype Ukraine
Medusinites patellaris Holotype Ukraine
"Medusinites sokolovi" Ukraine
Mialsemia semichatovi Holotype Russia
Nadalina yukonensis Holotype Canada
Namacalathus hermanastes Namibia
Namalia villersiensis Namibia See Ernietta plateauensis
Namapoikia rietoogensis Namibia
Nasepia altae Holotype Namibia
Nemiana bakeevi Holotype Urals
Nemiana simplex Holotype Australia, Russia, Ukraine, Siberia, Namibia
Nimbia dniesteri Ukraine
Nimbia occlusa ?Holotype Russia, Ukraine Canada
Nimbia paula Holotype Ukraine
Onega stepanovi Russia
"Onega nenoxa" Russia Same specimen as Pteridinium nenoxa See Pteridinium simplex
Orthogonium parallelum Namibia
Ovatoscutum concentricum Holotype Australia, Russia, Ukraine
Palaeopascichnus delicatus Australia, Russia Canada, Wales, Namibia, Ukraine, Newfoundland
Palaeophragmodictya reticulata Holotype Australia
"Papillionata eryie" Holotype Australia See Dickinsonia costata
Paracharnia dengyingensis China
Pasremedusium africanum Namibia
"Paramedusium patellaris" Ukraine Same specimen as Planomedusites patallaris and Medusinites patellaris
Paravendia janae Holotype Russia
Parvancorina minchami Australia, Russia
Parvancorina sagitta Holotype Russia
Persimedusites chahgazensis Iran
"Petalostroma kuibis" Holotype Namibia
Phyllozoon hanseni Holotype Australia
"Pinegia stellaris" Holotype Russia
Planomedusites grandis Ukraine
"Planomedusites patellaris" Ukraine
Platypholinia pholiata Russia
Podolomirus mirus Holotype Ukraine
"Pollukia serebrina" Holotype Ukraine same as "Cyclomedusa serebrina" See Aspidella terranovica
"Pollukia shulgae" Ukraine see Aspidella terranovica
Pomoria corolliformis Holotype Russia
"Praecambridium sigillum" Australia
Protechiurus edmondsi Holotype Namibia
Protodipleurosoma asymmetrica Holotype Urals
Protodipleurosoma paula Russia, Urals
"Protodipleurosoma regulosa" Holotype Russia, Ukraine
"Protodipleurosoma wardi" Holotype Australia
Protoniobea wadea Holotype Australia
Pseudorhizostomites howchini Australia, Russia, Ukraine
"Pseudoropilema chapmani" Holotype Australia see Pseudorhizostomites howchini
Pseudovendia charnwoodensis Russia, England
"Pteridinium carolinaense" Holotype North Carolina See Pteridinium simplex
"Pteridinium latum" = Inkrylovia lata Russia
"Pteridinium nenoxa" Australia, Russia See Pteridinium simplex
Pteridinium simplex Australia, Russia, Namibia, Canada,
Ramellina pennata Holotype Russia
"Rangea arborea" Holotype Australia Same specimen as Arborea arborea, see Charniodiscus arboreus
"Rangia grandis" Holotype Australia See Charnia masoni
"Rangea longa" Holotype Australia See Ovatoscutum concentricum, same specimen as Glassnerina longa
Rangea schneiderhoenhi Namibia
"Rangea siberica" Holotype Siberia Same specimen as Charnia siberica
Rugocionites enigmaticus Australia
Rugoconites tenuirugosus Holotype Australia
Sekwia excentrica Canada, India
"Sekwia kaptarenkoe" Holotype Ukraine See Nemiana simplex
Shepshedia palmata Holotype England
Skinnera brooksi Holotype Australia
Solza marginata Holotype Russia
"Spriggia annulata" Holotype Australia See Aspidella terranovica
"Spriggia wadea" Holotype Australia, Canada See Aspidella terranovica
"Spriggina borealis" Holotype Russia
Spriggina floundersi Australia
"Spriggina ovata" Holotype Australia See Marywadia ovata
Staurinidia cruciculata Russia
Suvorovella aldanica Holotype Russia, Namibia
Suzmites tenuis Holotype Russia
Suzmites volutatus Holotype Russia
Swartpuntia germsi Russia, Namibia
Tamga hamulifera Holotype Russia
"Tateana inflata" Australia See Aspidella terranovica
Temnoxa molluscula Holotype Russia
Thectardis avalonensis Newfoundland
Tirasiana cocarda Holotype Ruissia, Urals
"Triasiana concentralis" Holotype Russia See Aspidella terranovica
"Tirasiana disconformis" Holotype Russia, Siberia, Moldavia
Tribachidium heraldicum Holotype Australia, Russia, Ukraine
Triforillonia costellae Holotype Newfoundland
Vaizitsinia sophia Holotype Russia
Valdainia plumosa Holotype Ukraine
Vaveliksia vana Holotype Australia, Russia
Vaveliksia velikanovi Holotype Ukraine
Velancorina martina Holotype Namibia
Vendella haelenicae Ukraine
"Vendella larini" Holotype Ukraine See Aspidella terranovica
Vendella sokolovi Ukraine
"Vendia" janae" Holotype Russia Same specimen as Paravendia janae: See Paravendia janae
Vendia rachiata Holotype Russia
Vendia sokolovi Holotype Russia
Vendoconularia triradiata Holotype Russia
Vendomia manneri Holotype Russia
Ventogyrus christyakovi Russia
Veprina undosa Holotype Russia
Vladimissa missarzhevskii Holotype Russia
Wadea gen. nov. See Rugoconites tenuigrugosa
Wigwamiella enigmatica Holotype Australia
Windermeria aitkeni Holotype Canada
Yarnemia acidiformis Holotype Russia
Yelovichnus gracilis Holotype Russia
Yorgia waggoneri Holotype Australia, Russia
Zolotytsia biserialis Holotype Russia, Ukraine, India

Parvanocorina. This animal is almost triangular about 2 cm in diameter. It is bisected into 2 equal parts by a central furrow. Parallel to one long curving edge there is another furrow. It has been suggested that it may be an arthropod, based on its similarity to arthropods.
Spriggina. It was about 3 cm long with a crescent-shaped head and many segments that tapered to the posterior end. It was originally thought to be an annelid worm, but later work suggests it may be an arthropod.
Tribrachidium. This is one animal that is difficult to assign to a known group. This was a small, disk-shaped animal up to a few cm across. 3 curved grooves radiated out from the centre that has been likened to a 3-armed swastika. It is the only known animal from the entire known history of life that appears to be based on a 3-fold radial symmetry. Some have suggested that it was a dead-end form, giving rise to no descendants. Others have suggested it may be distantly related to cnidarians (corals and anemones), or brachiopods. There is also suggested with a limited following that all the members of the Ediacaran fauna belong to their own unique kingdom that left no lineages leading to modern forms.
"Arborea arborea" (holotype) Rawnsley Quartzite, Ediacara Hills, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. (aka Charniodiscus arborea, C. concentricus, Rangea arborea, etc)
Arkarua adami (holotype), Chace Range & Devil's Peak, Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Ediacaran member, Rawnsley Quartzite, Wilpena Group. Disc- to hemispherical shape with an opening formed of 5-pointed star-shape of grooves. They have a segmented rim formed by shallow depression with an outer ridge. and are almost of polygonal shape when flattened. Alchuringa
Arumberia banksii Ediacaran and Early Cambrian of Arumbera Sandstone & Central Mt Stuart Formation, Northern Territory, Pound Subgroup & Billy Creek Formation, Flinders Ranges of South Australia; Longmyndian of England and Wales; White Sea, Russia; Urals, Podolia, Ukraine; northern France and the Channel Islands (probably Early Cambrian); Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland; southern Namibia. Shallow grooves with inner and outer walls separating a series of rectilinear ribs that radiate from a gently sloping elevation.
Aspidella terranovica Wikipedia Palaeontology

Mikhail A. Fodonkin, James G. Gehling, Kathleen Grey, Guy M. Narbonne, Patricia Vickers-Rich, The Rise of Animals, Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia, Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2007

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