Dickinsonia menneri Keller and Fedonkin 1977

Bilateria

Alternative combination: Vendomia menneri

Belongs to Dickinsonia according to A. Y. Ivantsov 2007

See also Fedonkin et al. 2007

Sister taxa: Dickinsonia costata, Dickinsonia elongata, Dickinsonia tenuis

Type specimen: GIN 4464/57 now PIN 3992/57. Its type locality is Right bank of the Syuzma River, 5 km upstream from the mouth, which is in an Ediacaran marine sandstone in the Verkhovka Formation of the Russian Federation.

Ecology: slow-moving epifaunal osmotroph

Distribution: found only at Right bank of the Syuzma River, 5 km upstream from the mouth

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