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    Aspidella is also a homonym for the mushroom genus Saproamanita. Aspidella is an Ediacaran disk-shaped fossil of uncertain affinity. It is known from the...
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    discoverer of the first known pre-Cambrian (Ediacaran) fossil, later named Aspidella. Alexander Murray was born at Dollerie House, Crieff, Perthshire, Scotland...
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    Family: Amanitaceae Genus: Amanita Species: A. hesleri Binomial name Amanita hesleri Bas 1969 Synonyms Aspidella hesleri (Bas) Vizzini & Contu (2012)...
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    synonym for Aspidella terranovica described in 1872. Although Ediacaria is one of the first described organisms from the Precambrian, Aspidella was described...
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    Lepidella and later Aspidella. Both of these names are unusable because of earlier usage by biologists for other organisms, e.g. Aspidella E. Billings. The...
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    Mistaken Point is the original location of the first documented Ediacaran, Aspidella terranovica (which gets its specific name from Newfoundland). The peninsula...
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  • Thumbnail for Saproamanita inopinata
    previously called Anamita inopinata, before being briefly renamed to Aspidella inopinata until it received its current name. The native range is currently...
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    Dickinsonia and Spriggina), Petalonamae (sea pen-like animals, e.g. Charnia), Aspidella (radial-shaped animals, e.g. Cyclomedusa) and Trilobozoa (animals with...
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    red algae. The first Ediacaran fossils discovered were the disc-shaped Aspidella terranovica in 1868. Their discoverer, Scottish geologist Alexander Murray...
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    Tribrachidium and other organisms: Tribrachidium heraldicum (top); Wigwamiella enigmatica,a taphomorph of aspidella (left); and Rugoconites enigmatica (right)....
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    Marinoan glaciation, and in 770 million years ago rocks in Kazakhstan. Aspidella also appears in these areas. Morania[dubious – discuss] and Beltina carbonaceous...
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  • Thumbnail for Saproamanita vittadinii
    Vizzini, Drehmel & Contu (2016) Synonyms Agaricus vittadinii Moretti Aspidella vittadinii (Moretti) E.-J.Gilbert Lepidella vittadinii (Moretti) E.-J...
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    classified as a Cercopemyces and an Amanita (or more specifically an Aspidella, Amanitaceae). Floccularia was circumscribed by Czech mycologist Zdeněk...
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    generic transfers by Jean-Edouard Gilbert to Lepidella in 1928, and to Aspidella in 1940. Both of these genera have since been subsumed into Amanita. A...
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  • Thumbnail for Saproamanita praeclara
    Vizzini, Drehmel & Contu Synonyms Amanita praeclara (A.Pearson) Bas Aspidella praeclara (A.Pearson) Vizzini & Contu Lepiota praeclara A.Pearson Macrolepiota...
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    low diversity, and includes rare trace fossils, Palaeopascichnus, and Aspidella discs, sometimes in great concentrations. On Bonavista Peninsula there...
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    (2016). "Saproamanita, a new name for both Lepidella E.-J. Gilbert and Aspidella E.-J. Gilbert (Amaniteae, Amanitaceae)". IMA Fungus. 7 (1): 119–129. doi:10...
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  • least animals, phytoplankton and calcimicrobes. At 610 million years ago, Aspidella disks appeared, but it is not clear that these represented complex life...
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    indications that they were multicellular as seen in discoid forms like Aspidella; would indicate that they were not colonial. All vendobionts, except proarticulates...
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  • Thumbnail for Amanita cokeri
    -J.Gilbert & Kühner) E.-J.Gilbert Synonyms Lepidella cokeri E.-J.Gilbert & Kühner (1928) Aspidella cokeri (E.-J.Gilbert & Kühner) E.-J.Gilbert (1940)...
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  • the formation was proposed. Soft-bodied discoidal specimens resembling Aspidella are described from the formation, that has been estimated as not older...
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  • Thumbnail for Saproamanita thiersii
    (2016). "Saproamanita, a new name for both Lepidella E.-J. Gilbert and Aspidella E.-J. Gilbert (Amaniteae, Amanitaceae)". IMA Fungus. 7 (1): 119–129. doi:10...
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    Ercole, E.; Voyron, S. (2012). "Rivalutazione e delimitazione del genere Aspidella (Agaricales, Amanitaceae), nuovamente separato da Amanita". Micologia...
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  • Thumbnail for Hiemalora
    Some of the representative fossils from that paper either show multiple Aspidella-like structures on the same specimen, or a Primocandelabrum-like cone...
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  • either a benthic organism like a xenophyophore or the internal contents of Aspidella, together forming a holdfast for a frond-like organism. More research...
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  • Thumbnail for Medusinites
    Phylum Cnidaria, which means they are related to other genera such as Aspidella and Cloudinidae, and are essentially classified as eumetazoans, just like...
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  • (2016). "Saproamanita, a new name for both Lepidella E.-J. Gilbert and Aspidella E.-J. Gilbert (Amaniteae, Amanitaceae)" (PDF). IMA Fungus. 7 (1): 119–129...
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  • Anderson, Michael M. (2003). "The first named Ediacaran body fossil, Aspidella terranovica". Palaeontology. 43 (3): 427–456. doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239...
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  • them and with a round nodule in the middle. List of ediacaran genera Aspidella Vickers-Rich, Patricia; Komarower, Patricia (2007). The Rise and Fall...
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  • Thumbnail for Elkanah Billings
    lifetime, he identified 1065 new species and 61 new genera, including Aspidella, the first documented fossil of the Ediacaran biota. He married Helen...
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