Corumbella

Corumbella is an extinct genus of terminal-Ediacaran cnidarians. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Corumbellidae, and is represented by a single species Corumbella werneri.[2] It possessed a carapace made up of thick polygonal rings[3] in which plates with pores and papillae [4] attest to the advent of skeletogenesis in latest Neoproterozoic metazoan.[3][4] It was a sessile predator and somewhat resembles the later conulariids.[3][5]

Corumbella
Temporal range: Ediacaran, 543 Ma[1]
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C. werneri reconstruction[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Scyphozoa
Family: †Corumbellidae
Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982[1]
Genus: †Corumbella
Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982[1]
Species:
†C. werneri
Binomial name
†Corumbella werneri
Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982[1]

See also

List of Ediacaran genera

References
  1. Pacheco, Mírian L. A. Forancelli; Galante, Douglas; Rodrigues, Fabio; Leme, Juliana de M.; Bidola, Pidassa; Hagadorn, Whitey; Stockmar, Marco; Herzen, Julia; Rudnitzki, Isaac D.; Pfeiffer, Franz; Marques, Antonio C. (2015). "Insights into the skeletonization, lifestyle, and affinity of the unusual Ediacaran fossil Corumbella". PLoS One. 10 (3): e0114219. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114219. PMC 4379158. PMID 25822998.
  2. Hahn et al., 1982
  3. Pacheco et al., 2011
  4. Warren, L. V.; Pacheco, M. L. A. F.; Fairchild, T. R.; Simoes, M. G.; Riccomini, C.; Boggiani, P. C.; Caceres, A. A. (2012). "The dawn of animal skeletogenesis: Ultrastructural analysis of the Ediacaran metazoan Corumbella werneri". Geology. 40 (8): 691. doi:10.1130/G33005.1.
  5. Babcock et al., 2005


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