Corumbella

<i>Corumbella</i>

Corumbella

Extinct genus of Ediacaran animals

Corumbella is an extinct genus of terminal-Ediacaran animals. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Corumbellidae, and is represented by a single species Corumbella werneri.[2] It possessed a carapace made up of thick polygonal rings[3] in which plates with pores and papillae [4] attest to the advent of skeletogenesis in the latest Neoproterozoic metazoan.[3][4] It was sessile and somewhat resembles the later conulariids,[3][5] though this similarity is likely superficial; its secretion of an aragonitic scleritome suggests a Eumetazoan affinity.[6]

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See also

List of Ediacaran genera

References

  1. [1]
    Pacheco, Mírian L. A. Forancelli; Galante, Douglas; Rodrigues, Fabio; Leme, Juliana de M.; Bidola, Pidassa; Hagadorn, Whitey; Stockmar, Marco; Herzen, Julia; Rudnitzki, Isaac D.; Pfeiffer, Franz; Marques, Antonio C. (2015). "Insights into the skeletonization, lifestyle, and affinity of the unusual Ediacaran fossil Corumbella". PLOS ONE. 10 (3): e0114219. Bibcode:2015PLoSO..1014219P. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0114219. PMC 4379158. PMID 25822998.
  2. [2]
    Hahn et al., 1982
  3. [3]
    Pacheco et al., 2011
  4. [4]
    Warren, L. V.; Pacheco, M. L. A. F.; Fairchild, T. R.; Simoes, M. G.; Riccomini, C.; Boggiani, P. C.; Caceres, A. A. (2012). "The dawn of animal skeletogenesis: Ultrastructural analysis of the Ediacaran metazoan Corumbella werneri". Geology. 40 (8): 691. Bibcode:2012Geo....40..691W. doi:10.1130/G33005.1.
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    Babcock et al., 2005
  6. [6]
    Osés, Gabriel Ladeira; Wood, Rachel; Romero, Guilherme Raffaeli; Evangelista Martins Prado, Gustavo Marcondes; Bidola, Pidassa; Herzen, Julia; Pfeiffer, Franz; Stampar, Sérgio Nascimento; Alves Forancelli Pacheco, Mírian Liza (2022). "Ediacaran Corumbella has a cataphract calcareous skeleton with controlled biomineralization". iScience. 25 (12): 105676. Bibcode:2022iSci...25j5676O. doi:10.1016/j.isci.2022.105676. PMC 9763863. PMID 36561886.


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