Sprigginidae Temporal range: Ediacaran | |
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Spriggina floundersi | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | † Proarticulata |
Class: | † Cephalozoa |
Family: | † Sprigginidae Glaessner, 1958 [1] |
Type species | |
† Spriggina floundersi Glaessner, 1958 | |
Genera | |
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Sprigginidae is an extinct family of cephalozoans characterized by having a greater number of isomers than its sister taxon, Yorgiidae. They lived approximately 635 million years ago, in the Ediacaran period.
Fossils are found within the Ediacaran sediments of South Australia. [1]
Sprigginidae presents 4 genera: