Tag: Dickinsonia
Kimberella — The Oldest Radula (Not)
There is a strange fact that shows that any interpretation of these trace fossils has to be taken with a grain of salt.
Conflicting Views about Kimberella’s Ecology
Based on the same fossil evidence, there is obviously much room for speculation and quite different opinions.
Kimberella — A Checkered History
John Kimber collected the first fossils of this organism and died tragically at age 38 during an expedition in South Australia in 1964.
Namacalathus, an Ediacaran Lophophorate Animal?
I have been writing a series of articles on alleged Ediacaran animals that have been postulated as precursors of the Cambrian explosion.
Did Cloudinids Have the Guts to Be Worms?
I promised last year to follow up on more alleged Ediacaran animals. Now is a good moment to come back to this, with a new study having just been published in the journal Nature Communications.