Dickinsonia

Dickinsonia costata, fossil

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: incertae sedis
Phylum: †Proarticulata
Classis: †Dipleurozoa
Genus: †Dickinsonia
Species: †D. costata – †D. menneri – †D. tenuis

Name

Dickinsonia Sprigg, 1947: 221

Type species: Dickinsonia costata Sprigg, 1947, by original designation.

Synonyms

• Papilionata Sprigg, 1947: 223
  • Type species: Papilionata eyrei Sprigg, 1947 [= Dickinsonia costata Sprigg, 1947], by original designation.
• ?Chondroplon Wade, 1971: 183 [possibly a deformed Dickinsonia according to Hofmann, 1988]
  • Type species: Chondroplon bilobatum Wade, 1971, by original designation.
• Vendomia Keller in Keller & Fedonkin, 1976 [syn.: Ivantsov, 2007]
  • Type species: Vendomia menneri Keller, 1976.

References

Primary references

• Hofmann, H.J. 1988. An alternative interpretation of the Ediacaran (Precambrian) chondrophore Chondroplon Wade. Alcheringa 12(4): 315–318. DOI: 10.1080/03115518808619130 .
• Ivantsov, A.Yu. 2007. Мелкие вендские поперечно-рассеченные ископаемые. [Small Vendian Transversely Articulated Fossils]. Paleontologicheskii Zhurnal 2007(2): 3–10. (in Russian). [English translation: Paleontological Journal 41(2): 113–122. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030107020013 . ResearchGate .] Reference page. 
• Sprigg, R.C. 1947. Early Cambrian (?) Jellyfishes from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 71(2): 212–224. BHL. Reference page. 
• Wade, M. 1971. Bilateral Precambrian Chondrophores from the Ediacara fauna, South Australia. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 84(1): 183–188. BHL.

Additional references

• Evans, S.D., Hunt, G., Gehling, J.G., Sperling, E.A. & Droser, M.L. 2023. Species of Dickinsonia Sprigg from the Ediacaran of South Australia. Palaeontology 66(1): e12635. DOI: 10.1111/pala.12635 . Reference page. 
• Gehling, J.G. & Runnegar, B. 2021 (online) 2022 (print). Phyllozoon and Aulozoon: key components of a novel Ediacaran death assemblage in Bathtub Gorge, Heysen Range, South Australia. In: THEMATIC ISSUE: The Ediacaran System and the Ediacaran-Cambrian Transition. Geological Magazine 159(7): 1134–1147. DOI: 10.1017/S0016756821000509 . Reference page. 
• Glaessner, M.F. 1979. Biogeography and Biostratigraphy. Precambrian. Pp. A79–A118. In: Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part A, Introduction, Fossilization (Taphonomy) Biogeography and Biostratigraphy. Boulder, Colorado and Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America and University of Kansas. xxiii + 569 pp. DOI: 10.17161/dt.v0i0.5534 .
• Hoekzema, R.S., Brasier, M.D.(†), Dunn, F.S. & Liu, A.G. 2017. Quantitative study of developmental biology confirms Dickinsonia as a metazoan. Proceedings of the Royal Society (B) 284(1862): 20171348. DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2017.1348 . Reference page.  [constrained to Metazoa, specifically Eumetazoa plus Placozoa total group]
• Ivantsov, A.Yu., Gritsenko, V.P., Paliy, V.M., Velіkanov, V.A., Konstantinenko, L.I.(†), Menasova, A.Sh., Fedonkin, M.A., Zakrevskaya, M.A. & Serezhnikova, E.A. 2015. Макрофоссилии верхнего венда Восточной Европы. Среднее Приднестровье и Волынь. [Upper Vendian macrofossils of Eastern Europe. Middle Dniester area and Volhynia] (in Russian and English). Moscow: PIN RAS. ISBN 978-5-903825-32-5. Academia.edu . Reference page. 
• Sperling, E.A. & Vinther, J. 2010. A placozoan affinity for Dickinsonia and the evolution of late Proterozoic metazoan feeding modes. Evolution & Development 12(2): 201–209. DOI: 10.1111/j.1525-142X.2010.00404.x . Reference page.  [interpreted as Placozoa]
• Sprigg, R.C. 1949. Early Cambrian "jellyfishes" of Ediacara, South Australia, and Mount John, Kimberley District, Western Australia. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia 73(1): 72–99. BHL. Internet Archive Reference page. 
• Wade, M. 1972. Dickinsonia: Polychaete worms from the late Precambrian Ediacara fauna, South Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16(2): 171–190. BHL.
• Zhang, X. & Reitner, J. 2006. A Fresh Look at Dickinsonia: Removing It from Vendobionta. Acta Geologica Sinica (English Edition) 80(5): 636–642. DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-6724.2006.tb00286.x . Reference page.  [interpreted as possible Ctenophora]