Tribrachidium gehlingi Botha and García-Bellido 2024

Triradialomorpha

Full reference: T. L. Botha and D. C. García-Bellido. 2024. A new species of the iconic triradial Ediacaran genus Tribrachidium from Nilpena Ediacara National Park, Flinders Ranges (South Australia). Journal of Paleontology 98(1):1-12

Belongs to Tribrachidium according to T. L. Botha and D. C. García-Bellido 2024

Sister taxon: Tribrachidium heraldicum

Type specimen: SAMA P59794. Its type locality is Boomerang Hill, which is in an Ediacaran marine sandstone in the Rawnsley Quartzite Formation of Australia.

Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal osmotroph

Distribution: found only at Boomerang Hill

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