Arboreomorph
| Arboreomorph Temporal range:
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| Arborea arborea | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | †Petalonamae |
| Class: | †Arboreomorpha Erwin et al., 2011 |
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The arboreomorphs (Arboreomorpha) are
frondomorph type that had a disk or bulb-shaped anchor on the ocean floor, a central stem and branching. The "branches" were smooth, tubular structures, often swollen with bifurcation and connected together to form a leaf-like structure.[1]
Erniettomorpha in a larger group called Frondomorpha.
References
- ^ Marc Laflamme & Guy M. Narbonne (2008): Competition in a Precambrian world: palaeoecology of Ediacaran fronds. Geology Today Vol. 24, No. 5: 182-187.
- ^ Dimitry Grazhdankin (2014): Patterns of Evolution of the Ediacaran soft-bodied Biota. Journal of Paleontology 88(2): 269–283. doi:10.1666/13-072
- ISSN 0016-7568.
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