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 Dniester River close 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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