Anfesta stankovskii

Anfesta stankovskii
Temporal range: Ediacaran
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Trilobozoa
Fedonkin, 1985
Family: Albumaresidae
Fedonkin, 1985[1]
Genus: Anfesta
Fedonkin, 1984
Species: A. stankovskii
Fedonkin, 1984

Anfesta stankovskii[2] was a trilobozoan closely related to Tribrachidium heraldicum. It was 18 mm in diameter, and, like Albumares, was divided into three lobes, but Anfesta was circular in appearance, as opposed to its trefoil-shaped relative.[1][3] Its fossils have been found in Ediacaran (Vendian) beds of the White Sea area, Arkhangelsk Region in northern Russia.

See also

List of Ediacaran genera

References

  1. ^ a b M. A. Fedonkin (1985). "Systematic Description of Vendian Metazoa". Vendian System: Historical–Geological and Paleontological Foundation, Vol. 1: Paleontology. Moscow: Nauka, pp. 70–106. (in Russian)
  2. ^ Fedonkin, M. A. (1984). "Promorphology of the Vendian Radialia." In: Sokolov, B. S., Ivanovskiy, A. B., eds., Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Earliest Phanerozoic. Nauka, Moscow. 30–58 (in Russian)
  3. ^ Mark A. S. McMenamin (1998). "The Sand Menagerie". In: "The Garden of Ediacara: Discovering the First Complex Life". Columbia University Press. New York. pp. 11–46.