Vendobionta

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Amorphea
Cladus: Obazoa
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Cladus: Filozoa
Cladus: Choanozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Phylum: †Vendobionta
Included groups (after Ivantsov & Zakrevskaya, 2021): †Petalonamae – †Proarticulata – †Trilobozoa – †Protechiuridae
Clades (after Erwin et al., 2011): †Arboreomorpha – †Dickinsoniomorpha – †Erniettomorpha – †Kimberellomorpha – †Rangeomorpha – †Triradialomorpha
Ordines (after Retallack, 2016): †Aspidellomorpha – †Charniomorpha – †Dickinsoniamorpha – †Erniettomorpha – †Rangeomorpha

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Genera: †Paracharnia – ...

Name

Vendobionta Seilacher, 1992

Synonyms

• Vendozoa Seilacher, 1985

References

Primary references

• Seilacher, A. 1985. Discussion of Precambrian Metazoa. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, B 311: 47–48. DOI: 10.1098/rstb.1985.0137 . Reference page.  [as "Vendozoa"]
• Seilacher, A. 1992. Vendobionta and Psammocorallia: lost constructions of Precambrian evolution. Journal of the Geological Society 149: 607–613. DOI: 10.1144/gsjgs.149.4.0607 . Reference page.  [as kingdom]

Additional references

Interpreted as Metazoans

• Buss, L.W. & Seilacher, A. 1994. The Phylum Vendobionta: A Sister Group of the Eumetazoa? Paleobiology 20(1): 1–4. JSTOR . Reference page.  [as phylum of Metazoa, sister group of Eumetazoa]
• Erwin, D.H., Laflamme, M., Tweedt, S.M., Sperling, E.A., Pisani, D. & Peterson, K.J. 2011. The Cambrian Conundrum: Early Divergence and Later Ecological Success in the Early History of Animals. Science 334(6059): 1091–1097. DOI: 10.1126/science.1206375 . ResearchGate . Reference page.  [proposes alternative classification for Ediacaran macrofossils in Supplementary Material]
• Ivantsov, A.Yu., Vickers-Rich, P., Zakrevskaya, M.A. & Hall, M. 2019. Conical Thecae of Precambrian Macroorganisms. Paleontological Journal 53(11): 1134–1146. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030119110054 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Ivantsov, A.Yu. & Zakrevskaya, M.A. 2021. Symmetry of Vendobionta (Late Precambrian Metazoa). Paleontological Journal 55(7): 717–726. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030121070054 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Ivantsov, A.Yu. & Zakrevskaya, M.A. 2021. Trilobozoa, Precambrian Tri-Radial Organisms. Paleontological Journal 55(7): 727–741. DOI: 10.1134/S0031030121070066 . ResearchGate . Reference page. 
• Sun, W.G. 1986. Late Precambrian pennatulids (sea pens) from the Eastern Yangtze Gorge, China: Paracharnia gen. nov. Precambrian Research 31(4): 361–375. DOI: 10.1016/0301-9268(86)90040-9 .
• Waggoner, B.M. 1995. Ediacaran lichens: a critique. Paleobiology 21(3): 393–397. DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300013373 . [critique of Retallack (1994)]

Interpreted as non-Metazoans

• Retallack, G.J. 1994. Were the Ediacaran fossils lichens? Paleobiology 20(4): 523–544. DOI: 10.1017/S0094837300012975 . [interpreted as lichens]
• Retallack, G.J. 2016. Ediacaran fossils in thin-section. Alcheringa 40(4): 583–600. DOI: 10.1080/03115518.2016.1159412 . [as class of Fungi]
• Seilacher, A. 1989. Vendozoa: Organismic construction in the Phanerozoic biosphere. Lethaia 22(3): 229–239. DOI: 10.1111/j.1502-3931.1989.tb01332.x . Reference page.  [as "Vendozoa", considered not Metazoans]
• Seilacher, A. 2007. The nature of vendobionts. In: Vickers-Rich, P. & Komarower, P. (eds.) The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota. Geological Society, London, Special Publications 286: 387–397. DOI: 10.1144/SP286.28 . Reference page.  [as class of Rhizopoda]
• Seilacher, A., Grazhdankin, D. & Leguta, A. 2003. Ediacaran biota: The dawn of animal life in the shadow of giant protists. Paleontological Research 7(1): 43–54. DOI: 10.2517/prpsj.7.43 . Reference page.  [as class of Rhizopoda]