Trilobozoa

Trilobozoa Temporal range: Late Ediacaran, around 557–550 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Phylum:	†Trilobozoa Fedonkin, 1985 [nom. transl. Runnegar, 1992 ex Class Trilobozoa Fedonkin, 1985]
Genera
Tribrachidium Glaessner, 1959 Albumares Fedonkin, 1976 Anfesta Fedonkin, 1984 Skinnera Wade, 1969 Hallidaya Wade 1969 Rugoconites Glaessner & Wade 1966

Trilobozoa ("three-lobed animals") is a taxon of extinct mobile animals with a discoidal and hemispherical body which displayed either tri-radial , or radial symmetry.^[1] Fossils of trilobozoans are restricted to marine strata of the Late Ediacaran period.

Genus and Families (INCOMPLETE)[]

Genus: Tribrachidium

Genus: Anfesta

Genus: Albumares

Genus: Rugoconites

Genus: Skinnera

Genus: Hallidaya

Genus: Lorenzinites

Family:

Family: Tribrachididae

See also[]

• List of Ediacaran genera

References[]

• Ivantsov, Andrei Yu.; Fedonkin, Mikhail A. (2002). "Conulariid-like fossil from the Vendian of Russia: A metazoan clade across the Proterozoic/Palaeozoic boundary". Palaeontology. 45 (6): 1219–1229. doi:10.1111/1475-4983.00283.
• Fedonkin, Mikhail A. (2007). The Rise of Animals: Evolution and Diversification of the Kingdom Animalia. JHU Press. ISBN 9780801886799.
• McMenamin, M.A.S (1998). The Garden of Ediacara. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-10559-2.
• Dzik, Jerzy (2003). "Anatomical Information Content in the Ediacaran Fossils and Their Possible Zoological Affinities". Integrative and Comparative Biology. 43 (1): 114–126. doi:10.1093/icb/43.1.114. PMID 21680416.

External links[]

• Ediacara Assemblage University of Bristol