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Kimberia quadrata
Taxonomy
Kimberia quadrata was named by Glaessner and Wade (1966) [= 1959 ‘Problematic fossil, possibly belonging to the Siphonophora’, Glaessner, in Glaessner and Daily, p. 391, pi. 47, fig. 9.]. Its type specimen is PI 2734 and is a compression preserving soft parts. Its type locality is Ediacara Range, which is in an Ediacaran open shallow subtidal sandstone in the Rawnsley Quartzite Formation of Australia. It is the type species of Kimberella, Kimberia.
It was recombined as Kimberella quadrata by Glaessner (1959), Wade (1972), Grazhdankin (2014), Vaziri et al. (2021).
It was recombined as Kimberella quadrata by Glaessner (1959), Wade (1972), Grazhdankin (2014), Vaziri et al. (2021).
Synonymy list
| Year | Name and author |
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| 1959 | Kimberella quadrata Glaessner p. 391 figs. pl. 47, Fig. 9 |
| 1966 | Kimberia quadrata Glaessner and Wade pp. 611 - 612 figs. Plate 97, figs. 6, 7 |
| 1972 | Kimberella quadrata Wade |
| 2014 | Kimberella quadrata Grazhdankin p. 272 |
| 2021 | Kimberella quadrata Vaziri et al. p. 242 |
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If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.
†Kimberia quadrata Glaessner and Wade 1966
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
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| Reference: Fedonkin et al. 2007 | |||||