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IRMNG taxon detailsDickinsonia Sprigg, 1947 †
1067237 (urn:lsid:irmng.org:taxname:1067237)
accepted
Genus
Vendomia Keller, 1976 † · unaccepted
marine,
fossil only
Sprigg, R. C. (1947). Early Cambrian (?) Jellyfishes from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 71(2): 212-224., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41347851
page(s): 221 [details]
Taxonomic remark Affinities unclear; according to Retallack & Broz, 2020, Dickinsonia has in the past been considered as (1) lichenised...
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]
IRMNG (2021). Dickinsonia Sprigg, 1947 †. Accessed at: https://www.irmng.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=1067237 on 2025-03-31
Date action by 2016-11-22 11:07:31Z changed db_admin
original description
Sprigg, R. C. (1947). Early Cambrian (?) Jellyfishes from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 71(2): 212-224., available online at https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41347851
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]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [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]. Previously at http://ubio.org/NomenclatorZoologicus/ (URL no longer current). , available online at https://insecta.bio.spbu.ru/z/nomenclator_zoologicus_PDF.htm [details] current name source WoRMS (Mar 2013) [details] extant flag source Ivantsov, A. Yu.; Fedonkin, M. A.; Nagovitsyn, A. L.; Zakrevskaya, M. A. (2019). Cephalonega, новое родовое название и система вендских проартикулят. [Cephalonega, a new generic name, and the system of Vendian Proarticulata]. <em>Палеонтологический Журнал [Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal].</em> 2019(5): 14-21. [English translation: Paleontological Journal 53(5): 447-454.]. [details] habitat flag source Ivantsov, A. Yu.; Fedonkin, M. A.; Nagovitsyn, A. L.; Zakrevskaya, M. A. (2019). Cephalonega, новое родовое название и система вендских проартикулят. [Cephalonega, a new generic name, and the system of Vendian Proarticulata]. <em>Палеонтологический Журнал [Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal].</em> 2019(5): 14-21. [English translation: Paleontological Journal 53(5): 447-454.]. [details] Unreviewed
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] |
