Podolimirus

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Podolimirus
Temporal range: Ediacaran
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Subkingdom:
Phylum:
Genus:
Podolimirus
Species:
P. mirus

Fedonkin 1983
Synonyms
  • Valdainia plumosa

Podolimirus is an

monotypic genus of unclassified proarticulates. It presents a single species, Podolimirus mirus. It was found in strata of the late Ediacaran, at the beginning of the Cambrian.[1] It is one of the last proarticulates.[1] The first fossils of this genus and species were found in the Ukraine along the Dneister River close by to the deposits in the Vendian Sequence in 1983.[2]

Discovery

The first fossil specimens of P. mirus were found and described in the Dniester River of Ukraine, near the deposits in the Vendian Sequence by Mikhail A Fedokin in the year of 1983.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ a b Taphonomy of the Ediacaran Podolimirus and associated dipleurozoans from the Vendian of Ukraine
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