Kimberella Glaessner 1959

Kimberellomorpha

Synonym: Kimberia Glaessner and Wade 1966 [replaced name]

Parent taxon: Kimberellomorpha according to D. H. Erwin et al. 2011

See also Glaessner and Wade 1966, Grazhdankin 2014, Sepkoski 2002 and Vaziri et al. 2021

Sister taxon: Solza

Subtaxa: Kimberella persii Kimberella quadrata Kimberia quadrata

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Type: Kimberia quadrata

Ecology: slow-moving low-level epifaunal grazer

Distribution:

• Vendian of the Russian Federation (1 collection)

• Ediacaran of Australia (5), Brazil (1), India (1), Iran (3), the Russian Federation (12)

Total: 23 collections each including a single occurrence

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