Vendoglossa

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Vendoglossa
Temporal range: Precambrian
Vendoglossa tuberculata.jpg
artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
incertae sedis
Genus:
Vendoglossa
Species:
V. tuberculata
Binomial name
Vendoglossa tuberculata
Seilacher,2007[1]

Vendoglossa is a fossil from the Nama Group of Namibia from the Precambrian period. It is also known as the "cat's tongue organism".[2] The type species is Vendoglossa tuberculata.

The fossil has been interpreted as a dorso-ventrally compressed stem-group metazoan, with a large gut cavity and a transversely ridged ectoderm. It has the shape of a flattened torus, with the long axis running through the approximate center of the presumed gut cavity.[3] V. tuberculata is similar to other Pteridinium fossils in the way in which it has been preserved. It differs significantly in being crossed by rows of tiny papillae, as with a cat's tongue, rather than having the quilted pattern that is common with other Ediacara biotas.[2]

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Citations

  1. ^ Seilacher, A. 2007. The nature of vendobionts. In: Vickers-Rich, P. and Komarower, P., eds., The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota, Geological Society of London Special Publications 286, p. 387-397
  2. ^ a b Rich & Komarower 2007, p. 395.
  3. ^ McMenamin 2009.

Sources

  • McMenamin, M. A. S. (2009). Paleotorus: The Laws of Morphogenetic Evolution. Meanma Press. ISBN 978-1-893882-18-8.
  • Rich, Pat Vickers; Komarower, Patricia (2007). SP286 - Rise & Fall of Ediacaran Biota. Geological Society. p. 395. ISBN 978-1-86239-233-5. Retrieved 13 December 2012.
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