Dickinsonia costata

Dickinsonia costata, fossil

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Orthokaryota
Cladus: Neokaryota
Cladus: Scotokaryota
Cladus: Podiata
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: incertae sedis
Phylum: †Proarticulata
Classis: †Dipleurozoa
Genus: †Dickinsonia
Species: †Dickinsonia costata

Name

Dickinsonia costata Sprigg, 1947: 221

Holotype: SAM P47720. ('No. T.6., Tate Mus. Coll., Adel. Univ., South Australia.')

Synonyms

• Papilionata eyrei Sprigg, 1947: 223 [syn.: Glaessner & Wade, 1966: 620]
  • Holotype: SAM P47722. ('No. T.8., Tate Mus. Coll., Adel. Univ., South Australia.')
• Dickinsonia minima Sprigg, 1949: 97 [syn.: Glaessner & Wade, 1966: 621]
  • Holotype: SAM P47762. ('No. 2000, Tate Mus. Coll., Adel., S. Aust. Coll by W. Reidl.')
  • Type locality: Pound Quartzite, Ediacara, S. Aust.
• Dickinsonia spriggi Harrington & Moore, 1955: 162 [syn.: Glaessner & Wade, 1966: 620]
  • Holotype: SAM P47760. ('No. 2007, Tate Museum Coll., Adelaide Univ., South Australia.')
  • Type locality: Pound Quartzite, Upper Adelaide Series (Lower Cambrian), Ediacara, South Australia.
• Dickinsonia elongata Glaessner & Wade, 1966: 621 [syn.: Jenkins, 1992: 165]
  • Holotype: SAM P13767.

References

Primary references

• Glaessner, M.F. & Wade, M. 1966. The late Precambrian fossils from Ediacara, South Australia. Palaeontology 9(4): 599–628. BHL Reference page. 
• Harrington, H.J. & Moore, R.C. 1955. Fossil jellyfishes from Kansas Pennsylvanian rocks and elsewhere. Kansas Geological Survey Bulletin 114: 153–164. PDF. Reference page. 
• Jenkins, R.J.F. 1992. Functional and ecological aspects of Ediacaran assemblages. Pp. 131–176. In: J.H. Jipps & P.W. Signor (eds.) Origin and Early Evolution of the Metazoa. Topics in Geobiology 10. Springer, Boston, MA. DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4899-2427-8_5 . 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. 
• 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. 

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. 
• 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. 
• Wade, M. 1972. Dickinsonia: Polychaete worms from the late Precambrian Ediacara fauna, South Australia. Memoirs of the Queensland Museum 16(2): 171–190. BHL.