IRMNG taxon details
original description
Article title: Yangtziramulus zhangi new genus and species, a carbonate-hosted macrofossil from the Ediacaran Dengying Formation in the Yangtze Gorges area, South China. [details]
original description
Journal of Paleontology 83. page(s): 576 [details]
basis of record
www.organismnames.com (Jul 2012) / web search [details]
additional 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 note: as Erniettomorpha, however refer note [details]
verified source for family
Pang, K.; Chen, Z.; Zhou, C.; Yuan, X.; Xiao, S. (2017). New observations of branching macrofossils from the Ediacaran Dengying Formation in the Yangtze Gorges Area, South China. <em>Geological Society of America Abstracts with Programs.</em> 49(6): Paper No. 198-2., available online at https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2017AM/webprogram/Paper301275.html [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 [details]
extant flag source
inferred from original work (title) [details]
habitat flag source
inferred from original work (title) [details]
Unreviewed
Taxonomic remark Treated as Problematica (=Animalia incertae sedis) at this time. From Pang et al., 2017: Yangtziramulus zhangi was interpreted as a benthic organism consists of a central axis and biserially arranged tubes, each with two vertical side walls, a floor, a roof, and an open distal end. ... the new material suggests that the organisms consist of solid branches (sometimes with connecting bars), rather than open tubes/quilts. The phylogenetic affinities of these fossils remain unconstrained, although they are similar in some respects to encrusting algae, fungi, lichens, and slime molds. (Listed as Erniettomorpha in Retallack, 2016). [details]
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