Mawsonites
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Mawsonites is a fossil from the Ediacaran era from the Precambrian. It consists of a rounded diamond shape made up from lobes radiating out from a central circle. The size is roughly 12 cm in diameter. There are about 19 radiations from the central circle.
One species is Mawsonites spriggi, named after Douglas Mawson, and Reginald Sprigg. It was named by Martin Glaessner & Mary Wade in 1966 in The Late Precambrian Fossils from Ediacara, South Australia. Palaeontology 9 (4), pages. 599-628.
Theories about what it is are algae holdfasts, jellyfish, a filter feeder, a burrow. It occurs at Ediacara South Australia.
[edit] References
- Digging Up Deep Time, Paul Willis and Abbie Thomas
- Ediacaran Taxa
