• Namacalathus is a problematic metazoan fossil occurring in the latest Ediacaran. The first, and only described species, N. hermanastes, was first described...
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  • to the beginning of the Tommotian. The mineralized tubes of Cloudina, Namacalathus, Sinotubulites, and a dozen more of the other organisms from carbonate...
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    the world, and to the disappearance of distinctive Ediacaran fossils (Namacalathus, Cloudina). Nevertheless, there are arguments that the dated horizon...
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    from the temporal Terminal Ediacaran biozone. The benthic, calcified Namacalathus is only known from the Nama assemblage, although its affiliations remain...
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    the brachiopods and phoronids, and the possible Ediacaran lophophorate Namacalathus. Tentaculitids have ribbed, cone-shaped shells which range in length...
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  • spines, made of silica, and are thought to be the remains of sponges. Namacalathus, which may have been a cnidarian, closely related to jellyfish and corals...
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  • Namibia, in association with other calcifying fossils, Cloudina and Namacalathus. Its mineralogy and accretionary style has been compared with that of...
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    the latest Ediacaran of western Siberia, coexisting with Cloudina and Namacalathus. Filaments Filament-shaped structures in Precambrian fossils have been...
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  • carbonate rich areas of stromatolite reefs. It is found in association with Namacalathus, which like Cloudina was "weakly skeletal" and solitary, and Namapoikia...
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  • fossiliferous stratigraphic units in British Columbia Hofmann, Hans J. "Namacalathus-Cloudina assemblage in Neoproterozoic Miette Group (Byng Formation),...
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  • shelly fossils of prehistoric marine animals, ordered by their type. Namacalathus Yochelsoniella Elements of a scleritome, resembling Halkieria:[clarification...
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  • preserved by microbial mats; and calcifying organisms such as Cloudina and Namacalathus, which had a carbonate skeleton. Because both these groups disappear...
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    events: an example is Ausia fenestrata. Analysis performed in 2018 on Namacalathus and Cloudina skeletons from the Ediacaran Omkyk Member of the Nama Group...
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  • Hofmann 1987 discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters  Canada Namacalathus Grotzinger, Watters, et Knoll 2000  Namibia Namalia Germs 1968  Namibia...
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    be characteristic of the Cambrian. (The shelly fossils Cloudina and Namacalathus are known from terminal-Ediacaran sediments.) This assemblage has been...
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  • occur in higher number – five, six, a dozen – with some resemblance to Namacalathus. The affinity of melanosclerites is uncertain; algal has been proposed...
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    Cloudina aggregates are presented by Mehra & Maloof (2018). A study on Namacalathus and Cloudina skeletons from the Ediacaran Omkyk Member of the Nama Group...
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  • africanus. A study of phylogenetic relationships of the Ediacaran animal Namacalathus, interpreting it as a member of Lophotrochozoa related to bryozoans and...
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    published by Darroch et al. (2017). Fossils of members of the genus Namacalathus (co-occurring with Cloudina and Corumbella) are reported from the Ediacaran...
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  • the first three-dimensional, pyritized preservation of soft tissue in Namacalathus hermanastes from the Nama Group (Namibia), and evaluate the implications...
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