Ernietta
| Ernietta plateauensis Temporal range: Ediacaran, more than 548 Ma | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | Erniettomorpha |
| Genus: | †Ernietta |
| Species: | †E. plateauensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Ernietta plateauensis Pflug, 1966[1][1] | |
Ernietta plateauensis, the sole species of the genus Ernietta,[2] is a bag-shaped erniettomorph genus that lived half-buried in sediment,[3] and probably fed by osmosis.[4] It had chambered walls.[5]
Its fossils has been found in sandstones of the Kanies and Kliphoek Members of the Dabis Formation, Namibia. This deposits have an age more than 548 Myr.
The name has also been misspelled as Ernettia in some papers. Many species are now recognized as junior synonyms of Ernietta plateauensis, including:[2]
- Ernietta tschanabis Phlug, 1972
- E. aarensis Phlug, 1972
- Erniaster aportus Phlug, 1972
- E. patellus Phlug, 1972
- Erniobaris baroides Phlug, 1972
- E. epistuta Phlug, 1972
- E. gula Phlug, 1972
- E. parietalis Phlug, 1972
- Erniobeta forensis Phlug, 1972
- E. scapulosa Phlug, 1972
- Erniocarpis sermo Phlug, 1972
- Erntocentris centriformis Phlug, 1972
- Erniodiscus clypeus Phlug, 1972
- E. rutilus Phlug, 1972
- Erniofossa prognatha Phlug, 1972
- Erniograndis paraglossa Phlug, 1972
- E. sandalix Phlug, 1972
- Ernionorma abyssoides Phlug, 1972
- E. clausula Phlug, 1972
- E. peltis Phlug, 1972
- E. rector Phlug, 1972
- E. tribunalis Phlug, 1972
- Erniopelta scruputa Phlug, 1972
- Erniotaxls segmontrix Phlug, 1972
Further reading
- Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library) by Andrew H. Knoll
- Exceptional Fossil Preservation by David J. Bottjer, Walter Etter, James W. Hagadorn, and Carol M. Tang
- The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation by Andrey Zhuravlev and Robert Riding
- J. Dzik (1999). "Organic membranous skeleton of the Precambrian metazoans from Namibia" (PDF). Geology. 27 (6): 519–522. Bibcode:1999Geo....27..519D. doi:10.1130/0091-7613(1999)027<0519:OMSOTP>2.3.CO;2.
See also
References
- 1 2 "Name - Ernietta Pflug 1966". ION - Index to Organism Names.
- 1 2 Elliott, David A.; Trusler, Peter W.; Narbonne, Guy M.; Vickers-Rich, Patricia; Morton, Nicole; Hall, Mike; Hoffmann, Karl H.; Schneider, Gabi I.C. (9 September 2016). "Ernietta from the late Edicaran Nama Group, Namibia". Journal of Paleontology. 90 (06): 1017–1026. doi:10.1017/jpa.2016.94.
- ↑ Xiao, S.; Laflamme, M. (January 2009). "On the eve of animal radiation: phylogeny, ecology and evolution of the Ediacara biota". Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 24 (1): 31–40. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2008.07.015. PMID 18952316.
- ↑ Laflamme, M.; Xiao, S.; Kowalewski, M. (2009). "Osmotrophy in modular Ediacara organisms". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 106 (34): 14438. Bibcode:2009PNAS..10614438L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0904836106.
- ↑ Gaidos; et al. (2007). "The Precambrian emergence of animal life: a geobiological perspective" (PDF). Geobiology. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2007.00125.x.
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