Ediacaran Problematic Fossils is a Browse By group of the Nature Atlas that gathers enigmatic fossil organisms of the Ediacaran period whose relationship to living groups is unsettled. An entry belongs here when its own cited article states that it is an Ediacaran organism of uncertain affinity. It excludes Cambrian and earlier problematic fossils. Members are placed by the classification their cited article gives, not by common name or appearance alone.
All Ediacaran Problematic Fossils
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Wikipedia: Aspidella
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Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil of uncertain affinity.
View the Source Wikipedia: Cyclomedusa
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Cyclomedusa is a circular fossil of the Ediacaran biota; it has a circular bump in the middle and as many as five circular growth ridges around it.
View the Source Wikipedia: Palaeopascichnus
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Palaeopascichnus is an enigmatic form from the Ediacaran, consisting of a series of lobes.
View the Source Wikipedia: Hiemalora
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Hiemalora is a fossil of the Ediacaran biota, reaching around 3 cm in diameter, which superficially resembles a sea anemone.
View the Source Wikipedia: Cephalonega
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Cephalonega stepanovi is a fossil organism from Ediacaran deposits of the Arkhangelsk Region, Russia.
View the Source Wikipedia: Somatohelix
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Somatohelix is an extinct organism of uncertain affinities from the late Ediacaran of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.
View the Source Wikipedia: Mawsonites
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Mawsonites is a fossil genus dating to the Ediacaran Period, from 635-539 million years ago during the Precambrian era.
View the Source Wikipedia: Harlaniella
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Harlaniella is an enigmatic extinct organism from the late Ediacaran of Europe and the early Cambrian of California.
View the Source Wikipedia: Curviacus
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Curviacus is a genus of Ediacaran organism of uncertain lineage that displays a modular body plan consisting of crescent-shaped chambers.
View the Source Arumberia (Wikipedia)
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Arumberia is an enigmatic fossil from the Ediacaran period originally described from the Arumbera Sandstone, Northern Territory, Australia but also found in the Urals, East Siberia, England and Wales, Northern France, the Avalon Peninsula, India and Brazil.
View the Source Noffkarkys (Wikipedia)
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Noffkarkys ("net of Noffke") is a genus of problematic fossil first found in the Ediacaran (550 million years old) Grant Bluff Formation of Central Mount Stuart, Northern Territory, Australia, and another prostrate frond-like fossil.
View the Source Margaritiflabellum (Wikipedia)
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Margaritiflabellum is an extinct enigmatic organism from late Ediacaran of Russia.
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