Biology:Karakhtia

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Short description: Wrinkled Proarticulate from 555 ma

Karakhtia nessovi
Temporal range: Ediacaran, about 555 Ma
Karakhtia nessovi.jpg
Karakhtia nessovi
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Class:
Family:
†Vendiidae
Genus:
Karakhtia

Ivantsov, 2004
Species:
K. nessovi
Binomial name
Karakhtia nessovi
Ivantsov, 2004
Fossilised specimen of Karakhtia nessovi showing how it could be confused with an ancient lettuce leaf

Karakhtia nessovi is a species of Proarticulate from the Ediacaran period, around 555 Million Years Ago. K. nessovi is the only species in the genus Karakhtia.[1] The genus Haootia has been compared minorly to Karakhtia in the way that the fossils of Haootia superficially resemble the crumpled margins of Karakhtia.[2]

See also

References

  1. Ivantsov, Andrey Yu.; Malakhovskaya, Ya.E.; Serezhnikova, E.A. (January 2004). "Some problematic fossils from the Vendian of the southeastern White Sea Region". Paleontological Journal 38 (1): 1–9. https://www.researchgate.net/publication/287445709. 
  2. Liu, Alexander G.; Matthews, Jack J.; Menon, Latha R.; McIlroy, Duncan; Brasier, Martin D. (2014). "Haootia quadriformis n. gen., n. sp., interpreted as a muscular cnidarian impression from the Late Ediacaran period (Approx. 560 Ma)". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 281 (1793). doi:10.1098/rspb.2014.1202. PMID 25165764. 

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