Windermeria Temporal range: Ediacaran |
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artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Proarticulata? |
Class: | Dipleurozoa? |
Family: | Dickinsoniidae? |
Genus: | Windermeria |
Species: | W. aitkeni |
Binomial name | |
Windermeria aitkeni Narbonne, 1994 |
Windermeria aitkeni is a Precambrian organism from the Blueflower Formation of Sekwi Brook North, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Only one specimen has been found. Windermeria is a small (16.4 × 7.9 mm) segmented elongated oval fossil, eight nearly equal-sized segments arranged transverse to medial furrow in opposite arrangement.Windermeria superficially resembles a diminutive Dickinsonia and as such is the only possible dickinsoniid proarticulatan known exclusively from outside of Australia and East Europe.