Ivovicia

Ivovicia Temporal range: Ediacaran, about 553  Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
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Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Subkingdom:	Eumetazoa
Phylum:	†Proarticulata
Class:	†Cephalozoa [1]
Genus:	†Ivovicia Ivantsov, 2007
Species:	†I. rugulosa
Binomial name
Ivovicia rugulosa Ivantsov, 2007

Ivovicia is an extinct genus of proarticulates. This monotypic genus has only one species: Ivovicia rugulosa. The genus is named after the Ivovik Creek, near the location where the specimen was found. ^[2]

Etymology

The generic name, Ivovicia, refers to the Ivovik Creek, which is located near the type locality of I. rugulosa. The specific name, rugulosa, is from Latin rugulosus, meaning 'finely wrinkled'. ^[2] Therefore, the scientific name Iovicia rugulosa can roughly be translated as 'finely wrinkled of Ivovik Creek'.

References

1. Ivantsov, A.Y.; Fedonkin, M.A.; Nagovitsyn, A.L.; Zakrevskaya, M.A. (2019). "Cephalonega, a new generic name, and the system of Vendian Proarticulata". Paleontological Journal. 53 (5): 447–454. doi:10.1134/S0031030119050046. S2CID   203853224.
2. Ivantsov, A. Yu. (April 2007). "Small Vendian transversely Articulated fossils". Paleontological Journal. 41 (2): 113–122. doi:10.1134/S0031030107020013. S2CID   86636748.

Notes

• Budd, Graham E.; Jensen, Sören (November 2015). "The origin of the animals and a 'Savannah' hypothesis for early bilaterian evolution". Biological Reviews. 92 (1): 446–473. doi: 10.1111/brv.12239 .
• Freeman, Gary (2009). "The rise of bilaterians". Historical Biology. 21 (1–2): 99–114. doi: 10.1080/08912960903295843 .
• Sokolov, B.S. (October 2011). "The chronostratigraphic space of the lithosphere and the Vendian as a geohistorical subdivision of the Neoproterozoic". Russian Geology and Geophysics. 52 (10): 1048–1059. doi:10.1016/j.rgg.2011.09.002.
• Grazhdankin, Dmitriy (2014). "Patterns of Evolution of the Ediacaran Soft-Bodied Biota". Journal of Paleontology. 88 (2): 269–283. doi:10.1666/13-072.
• Retallack, Gregory J. (2016). "Ediacaran fossils in thin-section". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 40 (4): 583–600. doi:10.1080/03115518.2016.1159412.

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