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Dickinsonia
Description | Dickinsonia is an extinct genus of fossils of the Ediacaran biota. The individual Dickinsonia typically resembles a bilaterally symmetrical ribbed oval. Its affinities are presently unknown; its mode of growth is consistent with a bilaterian affinity, though some have suggested that it belongs to the fungi, or even an "extinct kingdom". The discovery of cholesterol molecules in fossils of Dickinsonia lends support to the idea that Dickinsonia was an animal. From Wikipedia article at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickinsonia, which is released under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike License 3.0. | |||||||
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Source Data |
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Rank | genus | |||||||
Taxonomy (GBIF) | Life : Animalia : Cnidaria : Dickinsonia | |||||||
Taxonomic Status (GBIF) | accepted | |||||||
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Scientific Name | Dickinsonia Sprigg, 1947 | |||||||
Name Published In | Sprigg, Reg. C. (1947). Early Cambrian (?) Jellyfishes from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 71, 212-24, pl. 5-7. | |||||||
Wikipedia | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dickinsonia |
Subtaxa
Name | Status | Common Name(s) | Fossil Occurrences | Oldest | Youngest |
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Dickinsonia costata species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Dickinsonia lissa species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Dickinsonia minima species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Dickinsonia rex species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Dickinsonia spriggi species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB | |||
Dickinsonia tenuis species | accepted (GBIF) | No associated record in PBDB |
Obsolete Names
Name | Source | Taxon Rank | Taxonomy |
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Vendomia Keller, 1976 | GBIF | genus | Animalia : Cnidaria : Vendomia |
References
Nomenclator Zoologicus. A list of the names of genera and subgenera in zoology from the tenth edition of Linnaeus, 1758 to the end of 2004. Digitised by uBio from vols. 1-9 of Neave (ed.), 1939-1996 plus supplementary digital-only volume. http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus (as at 2006). - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
SN2000 unverified - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Sawyer, 1986 - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
WoRMS (Mar 2013) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., 71 (2) - via The Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera |
Brasier, Martin; Antcliffe, Jonathan. (2004). PALEOBIOLOGY: Decoding the Ediacaran Enigma [commentary]. Science. 305(5687): 1115-1117. - via World Register of Marine Species |
Sprigg, Reg. C. (1947). Early Cambrian (?) Jellyfishes from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 71, 212-24, pl. 5-7. - via World Register of Marine Species |
Glaessner, Martin F.; Wade, Mary. (1966). The late Precambrian fossils from Ediacara, South Australia. Palaeontology. 9(4): 599-628. - via World Register of Marine Species |
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!