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Ikaria wariootia
Early bilaterian organism fossil species / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Ikaria wariootia is an early example of a wormlike, 2–7 mm-long (0.1–0.3 in) bilaterian organism. Its fossils are found in rocks of the Ediacara Member of South Australia that are estimated to be between 560 and 555 million years old.[1] A representative of the Ediacaran biota, Ikaria lived during the Ediacaran period, roughly 15 million years before the Cambrian, when the Cambrian explosion occurred and where widespread fossil evidence of modern bilaterian taxa appear in the fossil record.[1][2][3]
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Ikaria wariootia | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Clade: | ParaHoxozoa |
Clade: | Bilateria |
Genus: | †Ikaria Evans et al, 2020 |
Species: | †I. wariootia |
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†Ikaria wariootia Evans et al, 2020 | |
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