Aulozoon
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| Aulozoon Temporal range: Ediacaran | |
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| Genus: | †Aulozoon |
| Species: | †A. soliorum |
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| Aulozoon soliorum Gehling and Runnegar, 2021 | |
Aulozoon (lit. "Tube/pipe animal" in Greek) is a genus of Ediacaran organism, known only from the Rawnsley Quartzite in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. The organism is interpreted to have been sessile and upright in the water column, living in communities.
Specimens were first found from deposits in the Flinders Ranges, South Australia, and are exclusive to the Rawnsley Quartzite of the Flinders. Though, the fossil structures had been known, Aulozoon wasn't formally described until recently, due to contradicting interpretations of the form, which was argued to have been burrows.
Lengths of Aulozoon range from 2.49 cm to 59.08 cm, although, none of the specimens preserve a complete individual.
