IRMNG taxon details
original description
Retallack, G. J. (2016). Ediacaran fossils in thin-section. <em>Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology.</em> 40(4): 583-600., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1159412 [details]
basis of record
Retallack, G. J. (2016). Ediacaran fossils in thin-section. <em>Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology.</em> 40(4): 583-600., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1159412 [details]
taxonomy source
Retallack, G. J. (2016). Ediacaran fossils in thin-section. <em>Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology.</em> 40(4): 583-600., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1159412 [details]
name verified source
Retallack, G. J. (2016). Ediacaran fossils in thin-section. <em>Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology.</em> 40(4): 583-600., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1159412 [details]
current name source
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 note: as Dickinsoniamorpha (slightly different spelling) [details]
extant flag source
Retallack, G. J. (2016). Ediacaran fossils in thin-section. <em>Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology.</em> 40(4): 583-600., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1159412 [details]
habitat flag source
Retallack, G. J. (2016). Ediacaran fossils in thin-section. <em>Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology.</em> 40(4): 583-600., available online at https://doi.org/10.1080/03115518.2016.1159412 [details]
Unreviewed
Taxonomic remark Spelled Dickinsoniomorpha (error or intentional?) in Retallack & Broz, 2020. Affinities unclear; according to Retallack & Broz, 2020, Dickinsonia [hence: Dickinsoniamorpha] 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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