Hiemalora

Hiemalora is a genus of Ediacaran fossil about 3 centimeters across that superficially resembles a sea anemone, with a sack like body from which lines radiate outward, found at sites worldwide including the Digermulen Peninsula of Arctic Norway and dating to roughly 565 to 550 million years ago. First named Pinegia in 1980, it was renamed Hiemalora, from Latin for winter coast, two years later once the original name was found to already belong to another organism. Once read as a jellyfish or as tentacles for catching prey, its radiating lines are now more often interpreted as a holdfast anchoring a larger frond like organism such as Primocandelabrum, and its own biological affinity remains uncertain.