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Polychaeta taxon detailsDickinsonia Sprigg, 1947 †
marine,
fossil only
Sprigg, Reg. C. (1947). Early Cambrian (?) Jellyfishes from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 71, 212-24, pl. 5-7., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41347851
page(s): 221; note: describes Dickinsonia costata, new genus, new species, Ediacara fossil [details] Available for editors  [request]
Read, G.; Fauchald, K. (Ed.) (2021). World Polychaeta database. Dickinsonia Sprigg, 1947 †. Accessed at: http://www.marinespecies.org/polychaeta/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=324448 on 2024-04-23
Date action by
original description
Sprigg, Reg. C. (1947). Early Cambrian (?) Jellyfishes from the Flinders Ranges, South Australia. <em>Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia.</em> 71, 212-24, pl. 5-7., available online at http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/41347851
page(s): 221; note: describes Dickinsonia costata, new genus, new species, Ediacara fossil [details] Available for editors [request] additional source Brasier, Martin; Antcliffe, Jonathan. (2004). PALEOBIOLOGY: Decoding the Ediacaran Enigma [commentary]. <em>Science.</em> 305(5687): 1115-1117., available online at https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1102673 note: commentary on the proposition that rangeomorph taxa are modular elements of larger entities [details] additional source Glaessner, Martin F.; Wade, Mary. (1966). The late Precambrian fossils from Ediacara, South Australia. <em>Palaeontology.</em> 9(4): 599-628., available online at http://www.palass.org/dev/publications/palaeontology-journal/archive/vol9_part4_pp599-628.html [details] From editor or global species database
Classification Placement of Dickinsonia from the Ediacara in metazoa is uncertain, but they are no longer considered polychaete annelids as they were for a period. As first described Sprigg doubtfully included them in Cnidaria. Possibly such fossils are modules of larger organisms. Unverified as yet where first placed into Annelida, but Glaessner & Wade (1966) indicate Harrington & Moore created the "Dickinsoniidae" [Harrington, H. J., and R. C. Moore. "Kansas Pennsylvanian and other jellyfishes." Bull. Kansas geol. Surv 114 (1955): 153-163.] [details]
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