Coronacollina acula is an organism from the Ediacaran period. At the time of its discovery it was the oldest known animal with mineralized spicules.[1]
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| Genus: | Coronacollina Clites et al., 2012
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| Species: | C. acula
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| Coronacollina acula Clites et al., 2012
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References
- ^ Erica C. Clites, Mary L. Droser & James G. Gehling (2012). "The advent of hard-part structural support among the Ediacara biota: Ediacaran harbinger of a Cambrian mode of body construction". Geology (in press). doi:10.1130/G32828.1.
External links
- "Oldest organism with skeleton discovered in Australia". ScienceDaily. March 8, 2012.
- Charles Choi (March 8, 2012). "Meet Earth's earliest animal with a skeleton". MSNBC.
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