Kimberella quadrata

Fossile Kimberellae quadratae, aevo Ediacario viventis, ad litus Hiemale maris Albi excavatum

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Animalia — Eumetazoa — Bilateria

Genus : Kimberella 
Glaessner, 1959
Species : Kimberella quadrata 
(Glaessner et Wade, 1966)

   

Kimberella quadrata (ita anno 1972 scripsit Maria Wade, genus iam ab Martino Glaessner definitum accipiens) est species animalium marinorum cladi Bilaterium quae aevo Ediacario vivebat. Fossilia huius speciei tam in montibus Ediacariis Australiae Australis quam ad litora maris Albi Russica effodiuntur. Algas virides et bacteria comedebantur.

Bibliographia

• Ilya Bobrovskiy et al., "Guts, gut contents, and feeding strategies of Ediacaran animals" in Current Biology (22 Novembris 2022)
• M. F. Glaessner, M. Wade, "The late Precambrian fossils from Ediacara, South Australia" in Palaeontology vol. 9 (1966) pp. 599-628
• Mikhail A. Fedonkin, Alberto Simonetta, Andrei Yu. Ivantsova, "New data on Kimberella, the Vendian mollusc-like organism (White Sea region, Russia): palaeoecological and evolutionary implications" in P. Vickers-Rich, P. Komarower, edd., The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota (Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 286. Londinii, 2007) pp. 157–179 prima recensio
• Mary Wade, "Hydrozoa and Scyphozoa and other medusoids from the Precambrian Ediacara Fauna, South Australia" in Palaeontology vol. 15 (1972) pp. 197-225

Nexus externi

Vide "Kimberella" apud Vicispecies.