Bradgatia

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Bradgatia
Reconstruction of Bradgatia linfordensis

Reconstruction of Bradgatia linfordensis

Temporal occurrence
Ediacarium
575 to 565 million years
Locations
Systematics
Multicellular animals (Metazoa)
Bradgatia
Scientific name
Bradgatia
Boynton & Ford , 1995
species
  • Bradgatia linfordensis

Bradgatia is an extinct animal genus of the Ediacarium with uncertain taxonomic classification.

etymology

The generic name Bradgatia is derived from the type locality in Bradgate Park in Leicestershire in England . The species name linfordensis refers to the town of Newtown Linford in the Charnwood Forest .

Type locality and first description

Bradgatia was discovered in the Charnwood Forest near Leicester in the Bradgate Tuff Formation and was first described scientifically in 1995 by Boynton and Ford.

Occurrence

In addition to the type locality in Charnwood Forest, Bradgatia can be found at Mistaken Point and Bonavista Point in Newfoundland . The fossil is also found in British Columbia .

description

The bush-like Fossil bradgatia linfordensis consists of six or more fronds ( English fronds ), which extend from a central anchoring point on the base. Its exterior resembles a crushed cabbage. If there are several fossils, they are distributed regularly and not statistically. Bradgatia reached between 8 and 22 centimeters in height above the sea floor. The fossil assumed a dominant position at this ecological altitude and was only overtaken by the Charnia and Charniodiscus that had grown nearby .

Individual evidence

  1. Boynton, HE and Ford, TD: Ediacaran fossils from the Precambrian (Charnian Supergroup) of Charnwood Forest, Leicestershire, England . In: Mercian Geologist . tape 13 (4) , 1995, pp. 178 .
  2. ^ Matthew E. Clapham, Guy M. Narbonne and James G. Gehling: Paleoecology of the Oldest Known Animal Communities: Ediacaran Assemblages at Mistaken Point, Newfoundland . In: Paleobiology . tape 29 (4) , 2003, pp. 527-544 , doi : 10.1666 / 0094-8373 (2003) 029 <0527: POTOKA> 2.0.CO; 2 .