IRMNG taxon details
original description
Trans. Roy. Soc. S. Austr., 71 (2) page(s): 221 [details]
basis of record
SN2000 unverified [details]
basis of record
Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]
additional source
Fedonkin, M. A. (1994). Vendian body fossils and trace fossils. Pp. 370-388 in Nobel Symposium 84 Staff and Stefan Bengtson (eds): Early Life on Earth. Columbia University Press. [details]
verified source for family
Retallack, G. J.; Broz, A. P. (2020). <i>Arumberia</i> and other Ediacaran–Cambrian fossils of central Australia. <em>Historical Biology.</em> 33(10): 1964-1988., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/08912963.2020.1755281 [details]
name verified source
Neave, S. A. and successors. (1939-2004). Nomenclator Zoologicus, vols. 1-10 online. [developed by uBio, hosted online at MBLWHOI Library]. , available online at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ [details]
current name source
WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details]
extant flag source
Ivantsov, A. Y.; Fedonkin, M. A.; Nagovitsyn, A. L.; Zakrevskaya, M. A. (2019). Cephalonega, a new generic name, and the system of Vendian Proarticulata. <em>Paleontological Journal.</em> 53(5): 447-454. [details]
habitat flag source
Ivantsov, A. Y.; Fedonkin, M. A.; Nagovitsyn, A. L.; Zakrevskaya, M. A. (2019). Cephalonega, a new generic name, and the system of Vendian Proarticulata. <em>Paleontological Journal.</em> 53(5): 447-454. [details]
From other sources
Descriptive info Fossil according to SN2000 [details]
Taxonomic remark Affinities unclear; according to Retallack & Broz, 2020, Dickinsonia has in the past been considered as (1) lichenised glomeromycotan fungus (Retallack 1994, 2007, 2015b), (2) xenophyophoran protist (Zhuravlev 1993; Seilacher et al. 2005), (3) stem metazoan between sponges and cnidarians (Brasier 2004, Hoekzema et al. 2017; Evans et al. 2017; Dunn et al. 2018), (4) cnidarian sea jelly (Sprigg 1947; Harrington and Moore 1956), (5) cnidarian anemone (Valentine 1992), (6) polychaete worm (Wade 1972; Runnegar 1982), (7) annelid worm (Conway Morris 1979; Evans et al. 2019a), (8) turbellarian flatworm (Termier & Termier 1968, Fedonkin 1981), or (9) placozoan (Sperling and Vinther 2010). [details]
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