Mawsonites
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| Mawsonites Fossil range: Ediacaran |
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 Fossil of Mawsonites spriggi at Natural History Museum, London
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Mawsonites is a fossil from the Ediacaran era from the Precambrian. It consists of a rounded diamond shape, made up from lobes radiating out from a central circle roughly 12 cm in diameter. There are about 19 radiations from the central circle.
The type species is Mawsonites spriggi, named after Douglas Mawson, and Reg Sprigg. It was named by Martin Glaessner and Mary Wade in 1966.[1]
Theories about what it is are algae holdfasts, jellyfish, a filter feeder, a burrow, and a microbial colony.
[edit] References
- ^ "The Late Precambrian Fossils from Ediacara, South Australia" (1966). Palaeontology 9 (4): 599–628.
- Digging Up Deep Time, Paul Willis and Abbie Thomas
- Ediacaran Taxa
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