cloudinids, an early metazoan family containing the genera Acuticocloudina, Cloudina and Conotubus, lived in the late Ediacaran period about 550 million years...

produced tough outer shells while others, such as Cloudina, had a calcified exoskeleton. Some Cloudina shells even show evidence of predation, in the form...

animal Cloudina". Geology. 33 (4): 277–280. Bibcode:2005Geo....33..277H. doi:10.1130/G21198.1. Miller, A.J. (2004). "A Revised Morphology of Cloudina with...

fossil records during the Metazoan era were all bioclasts of cloudina shells. The cloudina shells make their shell beds when they are filled into depressions...

annelid, is now considered to represent a mollusc. An even older fossil, Cloudina, dates to the terminal Ediacaran period; this has been interpreted as an...

association with Cloudina fossils. Among the late Precambrian fossil assemblage in the Nama group, Namibia, Namacalathus far outnumber Cloudina and other poorly...

Cloudina may have been one of the first mineralized animals to appear, although its life appearance and evolutionary affinities remain unknown....

these fossils to be classified with confidence. The small shelly fossil Cloudina, from 549 to 542 million years ago, has been classified by some authors...

than the ancestors of nephrozoans. It is possible that the Cloudinids (Cloudina, Conotubus and Multiconotubus) are basal (and therefore bilateral) nephrozoans...

represent the entire skeletons of small organisms, including the mysterious Cloudina and some snail-like molluscs. However, the bulk of the fossils are fragments...

another; the appearance of the organism itself remains unknown. The name Cloudina honors Preston Cloud. Fossils consist of a series of stacked vase-like...

and to the disappearance of distinctive Ediacaran fossils (Namacalathus, Cloudina). Nevertheless, there are arguments that the dated horizon in Oman does...

definition, the assemblage's lower boundary would be the oldest appearance of Cloudina in the fossil record, placing the boundary at 550 Ma. This definition distinguishes...

fossils from the Ediacaran period. It is often found in association with Cloudina. Its tube has a "tube-in-tube" structure composed of several thin layers...

between the Late Ediacaran and Middle Cambrian periods. The earliest, Cloudina, shows signs of successful defense against predation and may indicate the...

LGBT rights in Namibia. He has been married to Cloudina Venaani since 2005 and has two children. Cloudina is a Social Scientist who has worked for the United...

Lescinsky, Halard L. (July 1999). "Spygoria zappania New Genus and Species, a Cloudina-like Biohermal Metazoan from the Lower Cambrian of Central Nevada". Journal...

small shelly fossils are represented in the Ediacaran, most famously by Cloudina a shelly tube-like fossil that often shows evidence of predatory boring...

0.CO;2. S2CID 86332371. Miller, A.J. (2004). "A Revised Morphology of Cloudina with Ecological and Phylogenetic Implications" (PDF). Retrieved 2007-04-24...

between the Late Ediacaran and Middle Cambrian periods. The earliest, Cloudina, shows signs of successful defense against predation and may indicate the...

between the Late Ediacaran and Middle Cambrian periods. The earliest, Cloudina, shows signs of successful defense against predation and may indicate the...

organisms, preserved by microbial mats; and calcifying organisms such as Cloudina and Namacalathus, which had a carbonate skeleton. Because both these groups...

Rietoog in southern Namibia, in association with other calcifying fossils, Cloudina and Namacalathus. Its mineralogy and accretionary style has been compared...

patterns and microbial mat-related lifestyles in the Ediacaran fossil Cloudina, Gaojiashan Lagerstätte, South China". Gondwana Research. 25 (3): 1008–1018...

al. (2024), who interpret fossil material of Cloudina from this assemblage as indicating that Cloudina had a worldwide distribution in different paleoecologies...

example is Ausia fenestrata. Analysis performed in 2018 on Namacalathus and Cloudina skeletons from the Ediacaran Omkyk Member of the Nama Group demonstrates...

these reefs were some of the oldest known shells in the fossil record, the Cloudina-fauna. Much of the Proterozoic and Paleozoic fossil story of Nevada is...

are found not only in disparate Kingdoms, but also in multiple domains. Cloudina Corumbella Saarina Sinotubulites List of Ediacaran genera Sappenfield,...

; Lescinsky, H. L. (1999). "Spygoria zappania new genus and species, a Cloudina-like biohermal metazoan from the Lower Cambrian of central Nevada". Journal...

Chondroplon Wade 1971 probably a junior synonym of Dickinsonia  Australia Cloudina Germs 1972 tubular fossil  Namibia Cocardia Grytsenko 2016  Ukraine Conomedusites...