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• Albumares
• Anfesta
• Anhuiphyton

• Annulusichnus - ichnotaxon
  Ichnotaxon
  An ichnotaxon is defined by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", that is, the non-human equivalent of an artifact. Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils, more commonly...
  
  
• Andiva
• Arborea - synonym of Charniodiscus
  Charniodiscus
  Charniodiscus is an Ediacaran fossil that was probably a stationary filter feeder that lived anchored to a sandy sea bed. The organism had a holdfast, stalk and frond. The holdfast was bulbous shaped, and the stalk was flexible. The frond was segmented and had a pointed tip...
  
  
• Archaeaspinus
• Archaeichnum - ichnotaxon
  Ichnotaxon
  An ichnotaxon is defined by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", that is, the non-human equivalent of an artifact. Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils, more commonly...
  
  
• Arenicolites - ichnotaxon
  Ichnotaxon
  An ichnotaxon is defined by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", that is, the non-human equivalent of an artifact. Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils, more commonly...
  
  
• Arkarua
  Arkarua
  Arkarua is a small, Precambrian disk-like fossil with a raised center, a number of radial ridges on the rim, and a five-pointed central depression marked with radial lines of 5 small dots from the middle of the disk center...
  
  
• Armillifera
• Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
  
• Ausia
• Avalofractus

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• Baikalina
• Beltanella - synonym of Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
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• Beltanelliformis
• Beltanelloides
• Beothukis
• Bomakellia
• Bonata
• Bradgatia
  Bradgatia
  Bradgatia is a bush-like Ediacaran fossil. It consists of six or more fronds radiating from a central anchor point at the base. It resembles a squashed cabbage in appearance. When multiple fossils are found together they are regularly spaced out rather than randomly distributed. It dominates the...
  
  

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• Charnia
  Charnia
  Charnia is the genus name given to a frond-like Ediacaran lifeform with segmented ridges branching alternately to the right and left from a zig-zag medial suture. The genus Charnia was named after Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, England, where the first fossilised specimen was found.- Diversity...
  
  
• Charniodiscus
  Charniodiscus
  Charniodiscus is an Ediacaran fossil that was probably a stationary filter feeder that lived anchored to a sandy sea bed. The organism had a holdfast, stalk and frond. The holdfast was bulbous shaped, and the stalk was flexible. The frond was segmented and had a pointed tip...
  
  
• Chondroplon
  Chondroplon
  Chondroplon bilobatum is a medusoid Ediacaran fossil.It has sand-filled tubes, although these may not have been sand-filled in life. It has a shield-like shape, with one end different from the other, and bilatteral symmetry claims that it posessesglide reflection symmetry are based upon a...
  
  
• Chuaria
• Circulichnis - ichnotaxon
  Ichnotaxon
  An ichnotaxon is defined by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", that is, the non-human equivalent of an artifact. Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils, more commonly...
  
  
• Cloudina
  Cloudinid
  The Cloudinids, an early metazoan family containing the genus Cloudina, lived in the late Ediacaran period and became extinct at the base of the Cambrian. They formed millimetre-scale conical fossils consisting of calcareous cones nested within one another; the appearance of the organism itself...
  
  
• Cochlichnus - ichnotaxon
  Ichnotaxon
  An ichnotaxon is defined by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", that is, the non-human equivalent of an artifact. Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils, more commonly...
  
  
• Conomedusites
• Cyanorus
• Cyclomedusa
  Cyclomedusa
  Cyclomedusa is a circular fossil of the Ediacaran biota; it has a circular bump in the middle and as many as five circular growth ridges around it. Many specimens are small, but specimens in excess of 20cm are known. The concentric disks are not necessarily circular, especially when adjacent...
  
  - synonym of Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
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• Ediacaria
  Ediacaria
  Ediacaria is a fossil genus dating to the Ediacaran Period of the Neoproterozoic Era. Unlike most Ediacaran biota which disappeared almost entirely from the fossil record at the end of the Period, Ediacaria fossils have been found dating from the Baikalian age of the Upper Riphean to 501 million...
  
  - synonym of Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
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• Eoandromeda
  Eoandromeda
  Eoandromeda is an Ediacaran organism consisting of eight radial spiral arms, and known from two taphonomic modes: the standard Ediacara type preservation in Australia, and as carbonaceous compressions from the Doushantuo formation of China,...
  
  
• Eoporpita
• Ernietta
  Ernietta
  Ernietta is a bag-shaped erniettomorph genus that lived half-buried in sediment, and probably fed by osmosis. It had chambered walls. It was from shale in the Dabis Formation in Namibia dated from 549 to 543 mya. The name has also been misspelled as Ernettia in some papers...
  
  

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• Fedomia
  Fedomia
  Fedomia is a genus of Ediacaran organism resembling a sponge.The organisms look like sacs, often connected and occasionally radiating from a central point, and are millimetres to centimetres in length...
  
  
• Flabellophyton
• Fractofusus
  Fractofusus
  Fractofusus misrai is a fossil discovered in Newfoundland, Canada.- Discovery of vendian fossils in the Avalon Peninsula :In the summer of 1967, S.D.Misra an Indian graduate student at Newfoundland's Memorial University discovered a rich assemblage of imprints of soft bodied organisms on the...
  
  
• Frondophyllas
• Funisia
  Funisia
  Funisia is a genus containing the single species F. dorothea, a fossil upright worm-like animal from the Ediacaran biota. Funisia stood about 0.3 metres tall. Because individuals grew in dense collections of animals the same age, it is believed to have reproduced sexually...
  
  

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• Gehlingia
• Glaessneria - synonym of Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
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• Glaessnerina - synonym of Charnia
  Charnia
  Charnia is the genus name given to a frond-like Ediacaran lifeform with segmented ridges branching alternately to the right and left from a zig-zag medial suture. The genus Charnia was named after Charnwood Forest in Leicestershire, England, where the first fossilised specimen was found.- Diversity...
  
  
• Gordia
  Gordia
  Gordia marina is a lower Cambrian ichnofossil, and is the most common trace fossil in the Kaili biota. It is often associated with the remains of a variety of dead organisms , suggesting that it was made my a scavenging worm-like creature...
  
  - ichnotaxon
  Ichnotaxon
  An ichnotaxon is defined by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", that is, the non-human equivalent of an artifact. Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils, more commonly...
  
  

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• Hadrynichorde
• Hadryniscala
• Hagenetta
• Harlaniella
• Hapsidophyllas
• Helminthoidichnites - ichnotaxon
  Ichnotaxon
  An ichnotaxon is defined by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", that is, the non-human equivalent of an artifact. Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils, more commonly...
  
  
• Hiemalora
  Hiemalora
  Hiemalora is a fossil of the Ediacaran biota, reaching around 3 cm in diameter, which superficially resembles a sea anemone. The genus has a sack-like body with faint radiating lines originally interpreted as tentacles, but discovery of a frond-like structure seemingly attached to some...
  
  
• Huangshanophyton

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• Inaria
  Inaria
  Inaria is an Ediacaran fossil. It is found in the Chace Range in Australia, and the White Sea area in Russia.It has radial symmetry and has been described as a tentacle-less cnidarian. The organism had a sac-like body that resembled a cluster of garlic or conical flask in shape, with a broad...
  
  
• Intrites - xenophyophore
  Xenophyophore
  Xenophyophores are marine protozoa, giant single-celled organisms found throughout the world's oceans, at depths of up to 10,641 meters . Xenophyophores are found in the greatest numbers on the abyssal plains of the deep ocean. They were first described as sponges in 1889, then as testate...
  
   protists
• Irridinitus - synonym of Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
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• Ivesheadia
• Ivovicia

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• Madigania - synonym of Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
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• Marywadea
  Marywadea
  Marywadea is a genus of Ediacaran biota shaped like an oval with a central ridge. It is a bilaterian organism as evidenced by its symmetry. The fossil has an asymmetrical first chamber of the quilt. It has transverse ridges away from the central axis that may be gonads. The head is shaped as a...
  
  
• Mawsonites
  Mawsonites
  Mawsonites is a kind of fossil from the Ediacaran period from the Precambrian era. The fossils consist of a rounded diamond shape, made up from lobes radiating out from a central circle roughly 12 cm in diameter...
  
  
• Medusina
• Medusinites - synonym of Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
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• Namacalathus
  Namacalathus
  NamacalathusNama, from the geological group where it was described, + Greek κάλαθος, kalathos, meaning "basket in the shape of a lily", or "wine goblet" is a problematic metazoan fossil occurring in the latest Ediacaran. The single species N...
  
  
• Namalia
• Namapoikia
  Namapoikia
  Namapoikia rietoogensis is among the earliest known animals to produce a calcareous skeleton.Known from the Ediacaran period, before the Cambrian explosion of calcifying animals, the organism grew up to a metre in diameter and resembles a colonial sponge or cnidarian...
  
  
• Nasepia
• Nemiana
  Nemiana
  Nemiana is a genus of simple, sessile organisms, containing just one species, N. simplex. They are one of the most commonly found Ediacaran organisms. While they have been found worldwide, their main locality are the sandstone shales near the White Sea, Russia.-Taxonomy:Nemiana simplex has given...
  
  
• Neonereites - xenophyophore
  Xenophyophore
  Xenophyophores are marine protozoa, giant single-celled organisms found throughout the world's oceans, at depths of up to 10,641 meters . Xenophyophores are found in the greatest numbers on the abyssal plains of the deep ocean. They were first described as sponges in 1889, then as testate...
  
   protists
• Nimbia
  Nimbia
  Nimbia occlusa is a form of Ediacaran fossil shaped like a circular or oval disk, with a thick rim around the margin. Within the rim the fossil is usually flat, but may have a central nipple or dimple...
  
  

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• Palaeohelminthoida - ichnotaxon
  Ichnotaxon
  An ichnotaxon is defined by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", that is, the non-human equivalent of an artifact. Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils, more commonly...
  
  
• Palaeopascichnus
  Palaeopascichnus
  Palaeopascichnus is a genus of Ediacaran organism comprising a series of lobes; it is plausibly a protozoan, but probably unrelated to the classical 'Ediacaran biota'....
  
  - xenophyophore
  Xenophyophore
  Xenophyophores are marine protozoa, giant single-celled organisms found throughout the world's oceans, at depths of up to 10,641 meters . Xenophyophores are found in the greatest numbers on the abyssal plains of the deep ocean. They were first described as sponges in 1889, then as testate...
  
   protists
• Palaeophragmodictya
  Palaeophragmodictya
  Palaeophragmodictya is a Precambrian sponge-grade organism from the Ediacaran Period.Originally interpreted as a hexactinellid sponge, the organism also bears some coelomate characteristics, including bilateral symmetry.-Morphology:...
  
  
• Paleoplatoda
• Paliella - synonym of Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
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• Pambikalbae
• Paracharnia
• Paramedusium - synonym of Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
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• Parvancorina
  Parvancorina
  Parvancorina is a genus of shield-shaped Ediacaran fossils. It has a raised ridge down the central axis of symmetry. This ridge can be high in unflattened fossils. At the 'head' end of the ridge there are two quarter circle shaped raised arcs attached. In front of this are two nested...
  
  
• Parviscopa
• Pectinifrons
  Pectinifrons
  Pectinifrons was a rangeomorph, a member of the Ediacara biota found at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland.It was a multi-branched organism with a comb-like appearance. It grew by adding fronds, then inflating them....
  
  
• Persimedusites
• Phyllozoon
  Phyllozoon
  Phyllozoon is an Ediacaran imprint that resembles a proarticulatan and has been interpreted as a feeding trace. It usually occurs in long chains of imprints formed, presumably, as the making organism moved....
  
  
• Planolites
  Planolites
  Planolites is an ichnogenus found throughout the Phanerozoic. Planolites are trace fossils made during the feeding process of ancient wormlike animals....
  
  - ichnotaxon
  Ichnotaxon
  An ichnotaxon is defined by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", that is, the non-human equivalent of an artifact. Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils, more commonly...
  
  
• Planomedusites - synonym of Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
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• Podolimirus
• Praecambridium
• Primocandelabrum
  Primocandelabrum
  Primocandelabrum is a genus of rangeomorph known from the Avalon-type Ediacaran biota. It makes up the brunt of some bedding plane assemblages....
  
  
• Protodipleurosoma - synonym of Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
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• Protolyella
• Protoniobia
• Pseudorhizostomites
• Pseudorhopilema
• Pteridinium
  Pteridinium
  Pteridinium is an erniettomorph found in a number of Precambrian deposits worldwide. It is a member of the Ediacaran biota.-Body plan:It has a three-lobed body which is generally smashed flat such that only two lobes are visible. Each lobe consists of a number of parallel ribs extending back to the...
  
  

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• Saarina
  Saarina
  Saarina is tubes-dwelling of unknown organisms known from siliciclastic deposits of the late Vendian and lowest Cambrian of the Russian Platform. It was organic thin-walled segmented tubes constructed as funnels densely enclosed each other...
  
  
• Sekwia
• Sellaulichnus - ichnotaxon
  Ichnotaxon
  An ichnotaxon is defined by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", that is, the non-human equivalent of an artifact. Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils, more commonly...
  
  
• Skinnera
• Skolithos
  Skolithos
  Skolithos is a common trace fossil ichnogenus whose original form consisted of approximately vertical cylinders. One well-known occurrence of Cambrian trace fossils is the famous 'Pipe Rock' of northwest Scotland...
  
  - burrows
  Burrows
  Burrows is a provincial electoral division in the Canadian province of Manitoba. It was created by redistribution in 1957, and formally came into existence in the provincial election of 1958. The riding is located in the northern part of Winnipeg....
  
   ichnotaxon
  Ichnotaxon
  An ichnotaxon is defined by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", that is, the non-human equivalent of an artifact. Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils, more commonly...
  
  
• Solza
• Somatohelix
  Somatohelix
  Somatohelix is a genus of cuvaceous, spiralling tubular fossil, 2–7 mm wide and 3–14 cm long, from the Ediacaran deposites of the South Australia that was originally interpreted as a trace fossil; a larger amount of better-preserved material since facilitated its reconstruction as the remains of an...
  
  
• Spriggia
• Spriggina
  Spriggina
  Fossils of Spriggina are known from the Ediacaran period, around . The segmented organism reached about 3 cm in length and may have been predatory...
  
  
• Swartpuntia
  Swartpuntia
  Swartpuntia is a monospecific genus of erniettomorph from the terminal Ediacaran period, with at least three quilted, leaf-shaped petaloids — probably five or six. The petaloids comprise vertical sheets of tubes filled with sand. Swartpuntia specimens range in length from 12 to 19 cm, and...
  
  

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• Tamga
  Tamga (fossil)
  Tamga hamulifera is a disk-shaped fossil from Precambrian strata of the White Sea area, in Russia.-Description:The small , disk-shaped fossil has seven hook-like isomers in a star-like arrangement in the clearly expressed peripheral undivided zone. T...
  
  
• Tateana - synonym of Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
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• Temnoxa
• Tentaculato
• Thectardis
  Thectardis
  Thectardis avalonensis is a triangular member of the Ediacara biota, dating from . The organism took the form of an elongated cone with a central depression: its apex sticking into the substrate.-Morphology:...
  
  
• Tirasiana - synonym of Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
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• Trepassia
• Treptichnus - ichnotaxon
  Ichnotaxon
  An ichnotaxon is defined by the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature as "a taxon based on the fossilized work of an organism", that is, the non-human equivalent of an artifact. Ichnotaxa are names used to identify and distinguish morphologically distinctive ichnofossils, more commonly...
  
  
• Tribrachidium
  Tribrachidium
  Tribrachidium heraldicum was an early Ediacaran organism famous for its unusual tri-radial symmetry. It was named and first described from South Australia by Martin Glaessner and Brian Daily in 1959....
  
  
• Triforillonia

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• Vaveliksia
  Vaveliksia
  Vaveliksia is a genus of sponges or sponge-like organisms from the Ediacaran. Their fossils are found in what is now the shores of the White Sea, along the banks of the Dniester River in Ukraine, and in Australia.-Morphology:...
  
  
• Vendella - synonym of Aspidella
  Aspidella
  Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil.- Morphology :Aspidella consists of disk-shaped fossils, with concentric rings and/or centripetal rays. The diameter of circular Aspidella varies from 1 to 180 mm. Most individuals are between 4 and 10 mm, however; smaller animals would...
  
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• Vendia
  Vendia
  Vendia is an oval-shaped, Ediacaran fossil from 4.5 to 12.5 mm long. Its body is completely segmented into isomers, which are arranged alternately in two rows longitudinal to the axis of the body. The larger isomers cover the smaller ones externally but the posterior ends of all the isomers...
  
  
• Vendoglossa
• Vendomia - synonym of Dickinsonia
  Dickinsonia
  Dickinsonia is an iconic fossil of the Ediacaran biota. It resembles a bilaterally symmetrical ribbed oval. Its affinities are presently unknown; most interpretations consider it to be an animal, although others suggest it may be fungal, or a member of an "extinct kingdom".-Species variety:A...
  
   menneri
• Ventogyrus