Corumbella
Extinct genus of Ediacaran animals
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Corumbella is an extinct genus of terminal-Ediacaran animals. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Corumbellidae, and is represented by a single species Corumbella werneri.[2] It possessed a carapace made up of thick polygonal rings[3] in which plates with pores and papillae[4] attest to the advent of skeletogenesis in the latest Neoproterozoic metazoan.[3][4] It was sessile and somewhat resembles the later conulariids,[3][5] though this similarity is likely superficial; its secretion of an aragonitic scleritome suggests a eumetazoan affinity.[6]
Phylum:Cnidaria
Class:Scyphozoa
Family:†Corumbellidae
Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982[1]
Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982[1]
Genus:†Corumbella
Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982[1]
Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982[1]
| Corumbella Temporal range: Ediacaran, | |
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| C. werneri reconstruction[1] | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | Scyphozoa |
| Family: | †Corumbellidae Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982[1] |
| Genus: | †Corumbella Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982[1] |
| Species: | †C. werneri |
| Binomial name | |
| †Corumbella werneri Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982[1] | |
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