Marywadea
| Marywadea Temporal range: Ediacaran
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | †Proarticulata |
| Class: | †Cephalozoa |
| Family: | †Sprigginidae |
| Genus: | †Marywadea Glaessner, 1976[1] |
| Species: | †M. ovata
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| †Marywadea ovata (Glaessner & Wade, 1966)
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Marywadea is a
has an asymmetrical first chamber of the quilt. It has transverse ridges away from the central axis that may be gonads. The head is shaped as a semicircle and is the same width as the rest of the body. The ridges number about 50. There are two oval shapes below the head.Marywadea ovata is the
phylogeny remains uncertain. Initially, it was described as the second species of Spriggina. The genus was established by Martin Glaessner in 1976, who named it after fellow paleontologist Mary Wade
, with whom he had described the species ten years earlier.
See also
References
- ^ a b Glaessner, Martin F. (1976). "A new genus of late Precambrian polychaete worms from South Australia" (PDF). Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia. 100 (3): 169–170. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-29.
- ^ a b Glaessner, Martin F. & Wade, Mary (1966). "The Late Precambrian Fossils from Ediacara, South Australia" (PDF). Palaeontology. 9 (4): 599–628. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-09-22.
- ^ Ivantsov, A.Y. (2004). "New Proarticulata from the Vendian of the Arkhangel'sk Region" (PDF). Paleontological Journal. 38 (3): 247–253. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2007-09-27.