Corumbella Temporal range: Ediacaran,
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C. werneri reconstruction [1] | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Family: | †
Corumbellidae Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982 [1] |
Genus: | †
Corumbella Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982 [1] |
Species: | †C. werneri
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Binomial name | |
†Corumbella werneri Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982
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Corumbella is an extinct genus of terminal- Ediacaran animals. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Corumbellidae, and is represented by a single species Corumbella werneri. [2] It possessed a carapace made up of thick polygonal rings [3] in which plates with pores and papillae [4] attest to the advent of skeletogenesis in the latest Neoproterozoic metazoan. [3] [4] It was sessile and somewhat resembles the later conulariids, [3] [5] though this similarity is likely superficial; its secretion of an aragonitic scleritome suggests a Eumetazoan affinity. [6]
Corumbella Temporal range: Ediacaran,
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C. werneri reconstruction [1] | |
Scientific classification
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Family: | †
Corumbellidae Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982 [1] |
Genus: | †
Corumbella Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982 [1] |
Species: | †C. werneri
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Binomial name | |
†Corumbella werneri Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982
[1]
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Corumbella is an extinct genus of terminal- Ediacaran animals. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Corumbellidae, and is represented by a single species Corumbella werneri. [2] It possessed a carapace made up of thick polygonal rings [3] in which plates with pores and papillae [4] attest to the advent of skeletogenesis in the latest Neoproterozoic metazoan. [3] [4] It was sessile and somewhat resembles the later conulariids, [3] [5] though this similarity is likely superficial; its secretion of an aragonitic scleritome suggests a Eumetazoan affinity. [6]