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Ernietta

 
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Ernietta
Fossil range: Ediacaran
Scientific classification
Kingdom: incertae sedis
Genus: Ernietta

Ernietta is a bag-shaped erniettomorph genus that lived half-buried in sediment,[1] and probably fed by osmosis.[2]

Further reading

  • Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth (Princeton Science Library) by Andrew H. Knoll
  • Exceptional Fossil Preservation by David J. Bottjer, Walter Etter, James W. Hagadorn, and Carol M. Tang
  • The Ecology of the Cambrian Radiation by Andrey Zhuravlev and Robert Riding

References

  1. ^ "On the eve of animal radiation: phylogeny, ecology and evolution of the Ediacara biota". Trends in Ecology & Evolution 24 (1): 31. Jan 2009. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2008.07.015. ISSN 0169-5347. PMID 18952316.  edit
  2. ^ Laflamme, M.; Xiao, S.; Kowalewski, M. (Aug 2009). "Osmotrophy in modular Ediacara organisms". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 106 (34): 14438. doi:10.1073/pnas.0904836106. ISSN 0027-8424. PMID 19706530.  edit

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