Bomakellia kelleri is a species of poorly understood Ediacaran fossil organism represented by only one specimen discovered in the Ust'-Pinega Formation of the Syuzma River (in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia) from rocks dated 555 million years old. Bomakellia was originally interpreted as an early Arthropod.[1] A study by B. M. Waggoner even concluded that the organism was a primitive anomalocarid and erroneously identified the ridges of supposed Cephalon as being eyes making Bomakellia the oldest known animal with vision.[2] But this hypothesis has not reached acceptance, nor acknowledgement.[3][4]
| Bomakellia Temporal range: | |
|---|---|
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| Bomakellia kelleri, restored as a rangeomorph | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | †Petalonamae |
| Family: | †Charniidae |
| Genus: | †Bomakellia Fedonkin, 1990 |
| Species: | †B. kelleri |
| Binomial name | |
| †Bomakellia kelleri Fedonkin, 1985[1] | |
A closer examination of the specimen has identified a tetraradial symmetry in the body, and a frond-like morphology which closely resembles that of Rangea – the current interpretation of Bomakellia is as a rangeomorph frond, which could possibly mean that it's closely related to the Chinese Paracharnia.[5]
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