Podolimirus
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| Genus: | † Podolimirus Fedonkin, 1983
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| Species: | † P. mirus
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| † Podolimirus mirus Fedonkin, 1983
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Podolimirus is an extinct monotypic genus of unclassified proarticulates. It presents a single species, Podolimirus mirus. It was found in strata of the late Ediacaran, at the beginning of the Cambrian.[1] It is one of the last proarticulates.[1] The first fossils of this genus and species were found in the Ukraine along the Dneister River close by to the deposits in the Vendian Sequence in 1983.[2]
Discovery
The first fossil specimens of P. mirus were found and described in the Dniester River of Ukraine, near the deposits in the Vendian Sequence by Mikhail A Fedokin in the year of 1983.[2]
See also
References
- ^ a b Taphonomy of the Ediacaran Podolimirus and associated dipleurozoans from the Vendian of Ukraine
- ^ a b Fedonkin, Mikhail A.; Gehling, James G.; Grey, Kathleen; Narbonne, Guy M.; Vickers-Rich, Patricia (Mar 16, 2007). The Rise and Fall of the Ediacaran Biota. JHU Press. ISBN 9781862392335. Retrieved July 10, 2022 – via Google Books.