''Windermeria aitkeni'' (named after
Windermere, British Columbia, Canada) is a
Precambrian
The Precambrian (or Pre-Cambrian, sometimes abbreviated pꞒ, or Cryptozoic) is the earliest part of Earth's history, set before the current Phanerozoic Eon. The Precambrian is so named because it preceded the Cambrian, the first period of the ...
organism from the
Blueflower Formation
The Blueflower Formation is a geologic formation in Northwest Territories. It preserves fossils dating back to the Ediacaran
The Ediacaran Period ( ) is a geological period that spans 96 million years from the end of the Cryogenian Period 63 ...
of
Sekwi Brook North, in the Northwest Territories of
Canada. Only one specimen has been found. ''Windermeria'' is a small (16.4 × 7.9 mm) segmented elongated oval fossil with eight nearly equal-sized segments arranged transverse to medial furrow in opposite arrangement.
[Fedonkin M.A., Gehling J.G., Grey K., Narbonne G.M., Vickers-Rich P. (2007).]
The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia
, Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 292 ''Windermeria'' superficially resembles a diminutive ''
Dickinsonia
''Dickinsonia'' is an extinct genus of basal animal that lived during the late Ediacaran period in what is now Australia, China, Russia and Ukraine. The individual ''Dickinsonia'' typically resembles a bilaterally symmetrical ribbed oval. Its a ...
'' and as such is the only possible dickinsoniid
proarticulatan known exclusively from outside of Australia and East Europe.
[Narbonne G.M. (2007).]
Chapter 10. The Canadian Cordillera
. In: Fedonkin M.A., Gehling J.G., Grey K., Narbonne G.M., Vickers-Rich P. "The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia", Johns Hopkins University Press. pp. 180
See also
*
List of Ediacaran genera
References
External links
* Queen's University Department of Geological Sciences and Geological Engineering Museu
archived from the original
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Dipleurozoa
Ediacaran Canada
Fossils of Canada
Ediacaran life
Fossil taxa described in 1994