Anfesta stankovskii
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| Anfesta stankovskii Temporal range: Ediacaran |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Trilobozoa Fedonkin, 1985 |
| Family: | Albumaresidae Fedonkin, 1985[1] |
| Genus: | Anfesta Fedonkin, 1984 |
| Species: | A. stankovskii Fedonkin, 1984 |
Anfesta stankovskii[2] was a trilobozoan closely related to Tribrachidium heraldicum. It was 18 mm in diameter, and, like Albumares, was divided into three lobes, but Anfesta was circular in appearance, as opposed to its trefoil-shaped relative.[1][3] Its fossils have been found in Ediacaran (Vendian) beds of the White Sea area, Arkhangelsk Region in northern Russia.
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- ^ a b M. A. Fedonkin (1985). "Systematic Description of Vendian Metazoa". Vendian System: Historical–Geological and Paleontological Foundation, Vol. 1: Paleontology. Moscow: Nauka, pp. 70–106. (in Russian)
- ^ Fedonkin, M. A. (1984). "Promorphology of the Vendian Radialia." In: Sokolov, B. S., Ivanovskiy, A. B., eds., Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the Earliest Phanerozoic. Nauka, Moscow. 30–58 (in Russian)
- ^ Mark A. S. McMenamin (1998). "The Sand Menagerie". In: "The Garden of Ediacara: Discovering the First Complex Life". Columbia University Press. New York. pp. 11–46.
