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Arkarua
Precambrian fossil / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Arkarua adami is a small, Precambrian disk-like fossil with a raised center, a number of radial ridges on the rim, and a five-pointed central depression marked with radial lines of five small dots from the middle of the disk center. Fossils range from 3 to 10 mm in diameter.
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Echinodermata (?) |
Class: | †Edrioasteroidea (?) |
Genus: | †Arkarua Gehling, 1987 |
Species: | †A. adami |
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†Arkarua adami Gehling, 1987 | |
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Arkarua is known only from the Ediacaran beds of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. The generic name refers to Arkaroo, a giant snake from the Dreaming of the local Aboriginal people.[1]
Arkarua is suggested to have been a passive suspension feeder.[2]