Dickinsoniidae

Dickinsoniidae
Temporal range: Ediacaran,
Dickinsonia costata
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: †Proarticulata
Class: †Dipleurozoa
Family: †
Harrington & Moore, 1955
Genera

Dickinsoniidae is a taxon of Ediacaran fossils with an airbed-like quilted morphology, sometimes found in association with bizarre trace fossils.[1] It is placed within the extinct phylum Proarticulata, and contains the defined genera Dickinsonia and probably Windermeria. Phyllozoon is associated with this family, and is thought to represent ichnofossils of Dickinsonia.

References

  1. ^ Harrington, N. J. and Moore. R. C. (1955). "Kansas Pennsylvanian and other jellyfishes". Bull. Kansas Geol. Surv. 114 (5): 153–163.


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