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Hiemalora

Index Hiemalora

Hiemalora is a fossil of the Ediacaran biota, reaching around 3 cm in diameter, which superficially resembles a sea anemone. [1]

14 relations: Adolf Seilacher, Chondrophore, Cnidaria, Cyclomedusa, Ediacaran, Ediacaran biota, Fossil, Holdfast, Incertae sedis, Jellyfish, List of Ediacaran genera, Mikhail Fedonkin, Sea anemone, Tentacle.

Adolf Seilacher

Adolf "Dolf" Seilacher (February 24, 1925 – April 26, 2014) was a German palaeontologist who worked in evolutionary and ecological palaeobiology for over 60 years.

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Chondrophore

The chondrophores or porpitids are a small and very unusual group of hydrozoans classified as the family Porpitidae.

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Cnidaria

Cnidaria is a phylum containing over 10,000 species of animals found exclusively in aquatic (freshwater and marine) environments: they are predominantly marine species.

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Cyclomedusa

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.

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Ediacaran

The Ediacaran Period, spans 94 million years from the end of the Cryogenian Period 635 million years ago (Mya), to the beginning of the Cambrian Period 541 Mya.

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Ediacaran biota

The Ediacaran (formerly Vendian) biota consisted of enigmatic tubular and frond-shaped, mostly sessile organisms that lived during the Ediacaran Period (ca. 635–542 Mya).

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Holdfast

A holdfast is a root-like structure that anchors aquatic sessile organisms, such as seaweed, other sessile algae, stalked crinoids, benthic cnidarians, and sponges, to the substrate.

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Incertae sedis

Incertae sedis (Latin for "of uncertain placement") is a term used for a taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined.

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Jellyfish

Jellyfish or sea jelly is the informal common name given to the medusa-phase of certain gelatinous members of the subphylum Medusozoa, a major part of the phylum Cnidaria.

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List of Ediacaran genera

This is a list of all described Ediacaran genera, including the Ediacaran biota.

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Mikhail Fedonkin

Academician Mikhail Aleksandrovich Fedonkin (Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Федо́нкин; born June 19, 1946) is an awarding winning paleontologist specializing in documentation of the earliest animals' body fossils, tracks, and trails.

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Sea anemone

Sea anemones are a group of marine, predatory animals of the order Actiniaria.

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Tentacle

In zoology, a tentacle is a flexible, mobile, elongated organ present in some species of animals, most of them invertebrates.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hiemalora

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