Full reference: P. Cloud, J. Wright, and L. Glover, III. 1976. Traces of Animal Life from 620-Million-Year-Old Rocks in North Carolina: The oldest well-dated metazoan fossils from North America are preserved beneath the deposits of a waning turbidity current that flowed downslope from an ancient volcanic borderland along the southeastern coast. American Scientist 64(4):396-406
Parent taxon: Pseudofossil according to A. Seilacher et al. 2000
See also Cloud et al. 1976 and Runnegar and Fedonkin 1992
Sister taxa: Batrachoides, Eozoon, Eozoon canadense, Horodyskia, Horodyskia moniliformis, Isuasphaera, Isuasphaera isua, Micropalaeosoma, Micropalaeosoma balticus, Neoguadalupia oregonensis, Thelyphonus hadleyi, Tineites crystalli, Tragos binneyi, Velia cornuta, Verruca withersi
Subtaxa: Vermiforma antiqua
Distribution:
• Ediacaran of United States (3: North Carolina collections)
Total: 3 collections each including a single occurrence
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