Ernietta
Ernietta is a bag-shaped erniettomorph genus that lived half-buried in sediment,[2] and probably fed by osmosis.[3] It had chambered walls.[4] It was from shale in the Dabis Formation in Namibia dated from 549 to 543 mya.[5] The name has also been misspelled as Ernettia in some papers. Other names that have been given to fossils that are probably the same organism are: Erniaster, Erniobaris, Erniobeta, Erniocarpus, Erniocentris, Erniocoris, Erniodiscus, Erniofossa, Erniograndis, Ernionorma, Erniopelta and Erniotaxis.[6]
Ernettia in context
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References
- ^ a b "Name - Ernietta Pflugg 1966". ION - Index to Organism Names. http://www.organismnames.com/details.htm?lsid=2258422.
- ^ Xiao, S.; Laflamme, M. (January 2009). "On the eve of animal radiation: phylogeny, ecology and evolution of the Ediacara biota". Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24 (1): 31–40. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2008.07.015. PMID 18952316. edit
- ^ Laflamme, M.; Xiao, S.; Kowalewski, M. (2009). "Osmotrophy in modular Ediacara organisms". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (34): 14438. Bibcode 2009PNAS..10614438L. doi:10.1073/pnas.0904836106. edit
- ^ Gaidos et al (2007). "The Precambrian emergence of animal life: a geobiological perspective". Geobiology. doi:10.1111/j.1472-4669.2007.00125.x. http://www.soest.hawaii.edu/GG/FACULTY/GAIDOS/geobiology2007.pdf.
- ^ Gregory J. Retallack (1994). "Were the Ediacaran fossils lichens?". Paleobiology. pp. 523–524. http://www.uoregon.edu/~gregr/Papers/fossil%20lichens.pdf.
- ^ Mikhail A. Fedonkin, James G. Gehling, Kathleen Grey, Guy M. Narbonne, and Patricia Vickers-Rich (2007). The Rise of Animals. Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 326. ISBN 9780801886799. http://books.google.com/?id=OFKG6SmPNuUC&pg=PA77.