Windermeria
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| Windermeria Temporal range: Ediacaran | |
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| Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | †Proarticulata |
| Class: | †Dipleurozoa |
| Family: | †Dickinsoniidae |
| Genus: | †Windermeria |
| Species: | †W. aitkeni |
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| †Windermeria aitkeni Narbonne, 1994[1] | |
Windermeria aitkeni (named after Windermere, British Columbia, Canada) is a Precambrian organism from the Blueflower Formation of Sekwi Brook North, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Only one specimen has been found. Windermeria is a small (16.4 × 7.9 mm) segmented elongated oval fossil with eight nearly equal-sized segments arranged transverse to medial furrow in opposite arrangement.[2] Windermeria superficially resembles a diminutive Dickinsonia and as such is the only possible dickinsoniid proarticulatan known exclusively from outside of Australia and East Europe.[3]