Spriggina ovata Glaessner and Wade 1966

Bilaterialomorpha

Full reference: M. F. Glaessner and M. Wade. 1966. The late Precambrian fossils from Ediacara, South Australia. Palaeontology 9(4):599-628

Belongs to Spriggina according to M. F. Glaessner and M. Wade 1966

See also Fedonkin et al. 2007

Sister taxon: Spriggina floundersi

Type specimen: P13754. Its type locality is Ediacara Range, which is in an Ediacaran open shallow subtidal sandstone in the Rawnsley Quartzite Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal osmotroph

Distribution: found only at Ediacara Range

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