Podolimirus

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Podolimirus
Temporal range: Ediacaran
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
† Proarticulata
Genus:
† Podolimirus

Fedonkin, 1983
Species:
† P. mirus
Binomial name
† Podolimirus mirus
Fedonkin, 1983
Synonyms
  • Valdainia plumosa

Podolimirus is an extinct monotypic genus of unclassified proarticulates. It presents a single species, Podolimirus mirus. It was found in strata of the late Ediacaran, at the beginning of the Cambrian. [1] It is one of the last proarticulates. [1] The first fossils of this genus and species were found in the Ukraine along the Dneister River close by to the deposits in the Vendian Sequence in 1983. [2]

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Discovery

The first fossil specimens of P. mirus were found and described in the Dniester River of Ukraine, near the deposits in the Vendian Sequence by Mikhail A Fedokin in the year of 1983. [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 Dzik, Jerzy; Martyshyn, Andrej (October 2015). "Taphonomy of the Ediacaran Podolimirus and associated dipleurozoans from the Vendian of Ukraine". Precambrian Research. 269: 139–146. doi:10.1016/j.precamres.2015.08.015.
  2. 1 2 Fedonkin, Mikhail A.; Gehling, James G.; Grey, Kathleen; Narbonne, Guy M.; Vickers-Rich, Patricia (Mar 16, 2007). The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota. JHU Press. ISBN   9781862392335 . Retrieved July 10, 2022– via Google Books.


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