Windermeria

Windermeria aitkeni is a Precambrian organism from the Blueflower Formation of Sekwi Brook North, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Only one specimen has been found. Windermeria is a small (16.4 × 7.9 mm) segmented elongated oval fossil with eight nearly equal-sized segments arranged transverse to medial furrow in opposite arrangement.[2] Windermeria superficially resembles a diminutive Dickinsonia and as such is the only possible dickinsoniid proarticulatan known exclusively from outside of Australia and East Europe.[3]

Windermeria
Temporal range: Ediacaran
artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: †Proarticulata
Class: †Dipleurozoa
Family: †Dickinsoniidae
Genus: †Windermeria
Species:
†W. aitkeni
Binomial name
†Windermeria aitkeni
Narbonne, 1994[1]

See also

References
  1. Narbonne, G. M. (1994). "New Ediacaran fossils from the Mackenzie Mountains, northwestern Canada". Journal of Paleontology. 63 (3): 411–416. JSTOR 1306192.
  2. Fedonkin M.A., Gehling J.G., Grey K., Narbonne G.M., Vickers-Rich P. (2007). "The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia", Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 292
  3. Narbonne G.M. (2007). "Chapter 10. The Canadian Cordillera". In: Fedonkin M.A., Gehling J.G., Grey K., Narbonne G.M., Vickers-Rich P. "The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia", Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 180
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