Velumbrella

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Velumbrella
Temporal range: Early Cambrian–Middle Cambrian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Clade: Cambroernida
Class: Eldonioidea
Family: Rotadiscidae (?)
Genus: Velumbrella
Stasińska 1960
Type species
V. czarnockii
Stasińska 1960

Velumbrella is an eldonioid [1] known from the Early to Middle Cambrian of Poland. [2] The fossils depict a scleritosed disk with a U-shaped gut. [3]

Velumbrella was originally thought to be related to the hydrozoan order Trachylenida, [4] or possibly to Ediacaria or Beltanella which were considered to be Cambrian jellyfish. [5] Upon erecting the class Eldonioidea, Dzik assigned Vellumbrella to Eldoniidae rather than Rotadiscidae on account of its radial ribs. [6]

Several authors (including Dzik) later noted the similarity between Velumbrella cznarnockii and Pararotadiscus guizhouensis (which was initially described as Rotadiscus guizhouensis). [7] [8] A more recent review tenatively placed Velumbrella in the Rotadiscidae (along with the more confidently-assigned Pararotadiscus), [1] noting that the rotadiscids are distinguished from other eldonioid families by concentric ornamentations on the dorsal surface. [9]

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