Talk:Dickinsonia

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The {{missing taxobox}} template on the article page is problematic. It is not even clear that Dickinsonia is an animal, and any further classification would be contentious. I don't see any real point in providing a taxobox for this genus. -- Donald Albury 14:36, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

We could place it in Family Dickinsonidae, which currently includes also Yorgia and Marywadea.--Mr Fink 17:01, 10 February 2007 (UTC)

Few of the Ediacaran biota have any taxoboxes, and they don't have any agreed form of classification. Family Dickinsonidae is just one POV. Another POV I have read is that presumably evolution diverged groups over time, so that close to their point of divergence they were more closely related, so that different Phyla ancestors in the Ediacarn period would be as closely related as animals from different orders (or some smaller subdivision) are today. I was thinking along the lines of animalia and leave it at that! GB 06:05, 11 February 2007 (UTC)