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Ediacaran (Vendian) Fauna - Species list
- Albumares brunae Holotype. Australia, Russia
- Anabylia improvisa Siberia
- Andiva ivantsovi Australia, Russia
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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
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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
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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
Sources & Further reading
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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