Database of Ediacaran Biota
The following is a list of all known published Ediacaran 'fauna' taxa as of 7/2010. References to the sources are available.
Please let us know about any errors, omissions, or updates to this database.
This data was compiled by Doug Erwin with help from Amy Campbell.
| Genus | species | BeginAge | EndAge | Ocurrences | Notes | Reference |
| "Praecambridium" | sigillum | WS | Ediacaran Hills, Australia; | Glaessner & Wade, 1971 | ||
| "Spriggina" | borealis | WS | White Sea, Russia | probably a different genus | Fedonkin 1979 | |
| Albumares | brunsae | WS | Ust'Pinga Fm, White Sea; Ediacaran Member, Rawnslye Quartzite, Flinders; | Fedonkin | ||
| Anabylia | improvisa | Khatysput Fm, Olenek Uplift, Siberia | ?=Inaria karlii (Grazdahnkin | |||
| Andiva | ivantsovi | WS | Ust'Pinga Fm, White Sea; Ediacaran Member, Rawnslye Quartzite, Flinders; | |||
| Anfesta | stankovskii | WS | Ust'Pinga Fm, White Sea; | Fedonkin, 1984 | ||
| Archaeaspinus | fedonkini | WS | Ust'Pinga Fm, White Sea; Ediacaran Member, Rawnslye Quartzite, Flinders; | |||
| Archangelia | valdaica | WS | Suzma, White Sea, | junior synonym of Onegia nenoxa | ||
| Arkarua | adami | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia | Gehling 1987 | ||
| Armillifera | parva | WS | Ust'Pinga Fm, White Sea; | Fedonkin 1980 | ||
| Aspidella | costata | Khatysput Fm, Olenek Uplift, Siberia | holdfast | |||
| Aspidella | hatyspytia | Khatysput Fm, Olenek Uplift, Siberia | holdfast | |||
| Aspidella | terranovica | WS | Rawnsley Quartzite; Flinders Ranges, Australia; Fermuse Fm., Newfoundland | holdfast | Gehling, Narbonne, Anderson, 2003 | |
| Ausia | fenestrata | N | Dabis Fm, Aus, Namibia | Hahn & Pflug, 1985 | ||
| Avalofractus | abaculus | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | Narbonne et al. 2009 | ||
| Baikalina | sessilis | Kurtun Fm, Lake Baikal | probably Pteridinium or Ernietta | Sokolov 1972 | ||
| Barmia | lobatus | Ashynskaya Seq, Askyn River, southern Urals | probably holdfast | |||
| Beltanella | zimimica | Bakyeievskaya Fm, Selem River, Urals | holdfast | |||
| Beltanelliformis | brunsae | WS | N | White Sea; Aus, Namibia, South Australia; Mackenzie Mts, Canada; Southern China; Uttar Pradeshh, India | Narbonne and Hoffman 1987 | |
| Beltanelloides | sorichevae | WS | White Sea; Podolia, Ukraine; | Sokolov, 1965 | ||
| Beothukis | mistakensis | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | Narbonne et al. 2009; Brasier & Antcliffe, 2009 | ||
| Bergaueria | sp | Stirling Range, Western Australia | possibly a trace fossil | |||
| Bergaueria | radiata | Nevada, U.S. | cambrian formation unknown | Arai and McGugan, 1969 | ||
| Blackbrookia | oaksi | A | Ives Head Group, Charnwood Forest; Mistaken Pt Fm., Newfoundland | |||
| Bomarkellia | kelleri | WS | Suzma, Ust-Pinga Fm., White Sea, | poss = Mialsemia | ||
| Bonata | septata | WS | Ust'Pinga Fm, White Sea; | Fedonkin | ||
| Brachina | delicata | WS | Brachina Gorge, Rawnsley Quartzite, S. Australia | Wade, 1972 | ||
| Bradgatia | linfordensis | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland; Charnwood Forest, England | Boynton and Ford, 1995 | ||
| Bronicella | podolica | Bronnitsy Mem, Yaryshev Fm., Dniester River, Ukraine | Sokolov 1973 | |||
| Charnia | masoni | A | WS | Charnwood forest; Mistaken Pt, Newfoundland; White Sea; Olenek Uplift, Siberia; Flinders Range, Australia; NW Canada | Ford 1958 | |
| Charnia | antecedens | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Trepassy Fm. Newfoundland | LaFlamme et al. 2007 | ||
| Charnia | grandis | A | WS | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland; Charnwood Forest; EdiacaraMbr, Australia | ||
| Charnia | wardi | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | see Trepassia wardae | ||
| Charniodiscus | arboreus | WS | Ediacaran Hills, Australia; Newfoundland; Uttar Pradesh, India | Glaessner and Daily 1959 | ||
| Charniodiscus | concentricus | A | WS | Charnwood forest; Flinders Range, Australia; | Ford, 1958 | |
| Charniodiscus | longus | WS | Ediacaran Hills, Australia; Newfoundland; possibly White Sea, Russia | Glaessner and Wade 1966 | ||
| Charniodiscus | oppositus | WS | Ediacaran Hills, Australia; Newfoundland; White Sea, Russia; Dniester River, Podolia, Ukraine | Jenkins and Gehling, 1978 | ||
| Charniodiscus | procerus | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | Laflamme et al., 2004 | ||
| Charniodiscus | spinosus | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | Benus 1988 | ||
| Chondroplon | bilobatum | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia; White Sea, Russia | Wade 1971 | ||
| Cloudina | sp | Namibia; China, Siberia, global | ||||
| Conomedusites | lobatus | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia; White Sea, Russia; Dniester River, Podolia, Ukraine; Uttar Pradesh, India | Glaessener and Wade 1966 | ||
| Cornumbella | werneri | Brazil; western US | possibly a conularid | |||
| Dickinsonia | brachina | WS | Brachina Gorge, Rawnsley Quartzite, S. Australia | |||
| Dickinsonia | costata | WS | Ediacaran Hills, Australia; White Sea, Russia | Simliar morphology and size to Swartpuntia germsi | Narbonne, Saylor, Grotzinger 1997 | |
| Dickinsonia | lissa | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia; White Sea, Russia | Grazhdankin and Ivantsov, 1996 | ||
| Dickinsonia | rex | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia | Jenkins, 1992 | ||
| Dickinsonia | tenuis | WS | Ediacaran Hills, Australia; White Sea, Russia; Dniester River, Podolia, Ukraine | Glaessner & Wade, 1966 | ||
| Elasenia | aseevae | Dniester Valley, Podolia, Ukraine | perhaps = Aspidella terranovica | Fedonkin | ||
| Elasenia | uralica | southern Urals | likely a holdfast | |||
| Eoporpita | medusa | WS | Ediacaran Hills, Australia; White Sea, Russia; possibly MacKenzie Mtns, Canada | Possibly a hold fast, or a xenophorine protist (Seilacher) | Wade 1972 | |
| Ernietta | plateauensis | N | Dabis Fm., Namibia | Pflug, 1966 | ||
| Evmiaksia | aksionovi | WS | White Sea, Russia | |||
| Fractofusus | misrai | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | Gehling & Narbonne 2007 | ||
| Fractofusus | andersoni | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | Gehling & Narbonne 2007 | ||
| Frondophyllas | grandis | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | Bamforth & Narbonne, 2009 | ||
| Funisia | dorothea | WS | Flinders Range, Australia | generally preserved without holdfasts attatched | Droser and Gehling 2008 | |
| Garania | petali | Askyn River Basin, Urals | ||||
| Hadrynichorde | catalenensis | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | Hofman et al. 2008 | ||
| Hadryniscala | avalonica | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | Hofman et al. 2008 | ||
| Hallidaya | brueri | Northern Territory, Australia | Wade, 1969 | |||
| Haspidophyllas | flexibilis | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | Bamforth & Narbonne, 2009 | ||
| Hiemalora | sp | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | |||
| Hiemalora | pleiomorpha | Olenek Uplift, Siberia; Mackenzie Mts, Canada | see also Maswsonites Pleisiomorphus | Vodanjuk 1989 | ||
| Hiemalora | stellaris | WS | White Sea; Podolia, Ukraine; Flinders Range, Australia; Olenek Uplift, Siberia | Fedonkin 1982 | ||
| Inaria | karli | WS | Flinders, South Australia | Uncertain, possible holdfast? | Gehling 1988 | |
| Inkrylovia | lata | WS | White Sea, Russia | bag-like structure | Fedonkin, 1979 | |
| Intrites | punctatus | WS | Ural Mts; White Sea, Russia | Fedonkin 1980 | ||
| Ivesheadia | lobata | A | Charnwood Forest, UK; Newfoundland; South Australia | Boynton and Ford 1995 | ||
| Ivovicia | regulosa | WS | White Sea, Russia | |||
| Kaisalia | levis | Ukraine | possible holdfast | |||
| Kaisalia | mensae | WS | White Sea, Russia | possible holdfast | ||
| Kharakhtia | nessovi | WS | White Sea, Russia | Grazhdankin, 2004 | ||
| Khatyspytia | grandis | Khatysput Fm, Olenek Uplift, Siberia | ?similar to Charnodiscus | Fedonkin 1985 | ||
| Kimberella | quadrata | WS | Ediacaran Hills, Australia; Newfoundland; Uttar Pradesh, India | ?possible mollusc (although this seems doubtful) | Fedonkin & Wagner, 1997 | |
| Kubisia | glabra | N | Aus, Namibia | ?Probably an Ernietta or Ausia | Hahn & Pflug 1995 | |
| Lomosovis | malus | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia; Podolia, Ukraine | |||
| Lossina | lissetskii | WS | White Sea, Russia | |||
| Marywadea | ovata | WS | Ediacaran Hills, Australia; | Glaessner & Wade, 1966 | ||
| Mawsonites | randellensis | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia | probably holdfast; ?=Aspidella | Sun, 1986 | |
| Mawsonites | spriggi | WS | Ediacaran Hills, Australia; | ? Holdfast | Glaessner & Wade, 1966 | |
| Medusinites | asteroides | WS | Ediacaran Hills, Australia; White Sea, Russia; Dniester River, Podolia, Ukraine; southern Urals; Wales; Mackenzie Mts, Canada | Sprigg 1949 | ||
| Medusinites | paliji | Ukraine | ||||
| Medusinites | patellaris | Ukraine | ?= Aspidella terranovica | |||
| Mialsemia | semichatovi | WS | White Sea, Russia | probably a rangeamorph | Fedonkin 1985 | |
| Nadalina | yukonensis | Yukon, Canada | Narbonne & Hoffman, 1987 | |||
| Namacalathus | hermanastes | N | southern Namibia | Skeletal microfossil | Grotzinger et al. 2000 | |
| Namapoikia | rietoogensis | N | Driedoornvlagte Reef, southern Namibia | Probably tabulate-like coral | Wood et al., 2002 | |
| Namiana | bakeevi | WS | Ural Mts. | ?algae or cnidarian | Becker, 1992 | |
| Nasepia | altae | N | southern Namibia | Germs, 1973 | ||
| Nemiana | simplex | WS | Podolia, Ukraine; White Sea, Russia; Olenek uplift, Siberia; southern Namibia; ?southern Australia | ?algae or cnidarian | Palij, 1976; Fedonkin, 1981 | |
| Nimbia | dniesteri | Ukraine | attachment disk | Fedonkin, 1983 | ||
| Nimbia | occlusa | WS | White Sea; Podolia, Ukraine;Mackenzie Mtns, Canada | attachment disk | Fedonkin, 1981 | |
| Nimbia | paula | Ukraine | attachment disk; 1 specimen | Fedonkin, 1981 | ||
| Onega | stepanovi | WS | White Sea, Russia | Fedonkin, 1977 | ||
| Orthogonium | parallelum | N | Farm Kubis, Namibia | Specimen lost in WWII | Gurich, 1930, 1933 | |
| Ovascutum | concentricum | WS | Ediacaran Hills, Australia; White Sea, Russia; Dniester River, Podolia, Ukraine | Glaessner & Wade, 1966 | ||
| Palaeopascichnus | delicatus | WS | South Australia; White Sea, Russia | once considered a trace fossil, may actually be one of the tube animals | ||
| Palaeophragmodictya | reticulata | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia | Gehling & Rigby 1996 | ||
| Palaeoplatoda | segmentata | WS | White Sea, Russia | ?possible Dickinsonina | ||
| Paracharnia | dengyingensis | Yangtze Gorge, China | frond similar to Bomakella | Ding and Chen 1981 | ||
| Paradoxides | carolinaensis | N | Little Bear Creek, North Carolina, US | Similar to Pteridinium of WS;beginning age questionable | St. Jean, 1973 | |
| Paramedusium | africanum | N | southern Namibia | single specimen lost during WWII | Gurich, 1930, 1933 | |
| Paravendia | janae | WS | White Sea, Russia | Ivantsov, 2001 | ||
| Parvancorina | minchami | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia; White Sea, Russia | Glaessner, 1958, 1980 | ||
| Parvancorina | saggita | WS | White Sea, Russia | Ivantsov et al. 2004 | ||
| Parviscopa | bonavistensis | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | Hofman et al. 2008 | ||
| Pectinifrons | abyssalis | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | Bamforth et al. 2008 | ||
| Pectinifrons | abyssalis | A | Avalon Peninsula, Newfoundland | Gamforth, Narbonne, Anderson, 2008 | ||
| Perimedusites | chahgazensis | Yazd area, Iran | may not be metazoan, or even organic | Hahn & Pflug, 1980 | ||
| Phyllozoon | hanseni | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia | Organic tubes | Jenkins et Gehling, 1978 | |
| Planomedusinites | grandis | Podolia, Ukraine | discoidal holdfast | |||
| Platyopholinia | pholata | WS | White Sea, Russia | flattened organism | Fedonkin 1985 | |
| Podolimirus | mirus | Dniester Valley, Podolia, Ukraine | ||||
| Pomoria | corolliformis | WS | White Sea, Russia | possible holdfast | Fedonkin 1985 | |
| Primocandelabrum | hemialoranum | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Trepassy Fm. Newfoundland | Hofman et al. 2008 | ||
| Protodipleurosoma | asymmetricaa | southern Urals | possible holdfast | Bekker, 1996 | ||
| Protodipleurosoma | paula | southern Urals | possible holdfast | Bekker, 1977; Fedonkin, 1980, 1985 | ||
| Protoniobea | wadea | Kimberlys, western Australia | circular impression; age uncertain | Sprigg, 1949 | ||
| Pseudovendia | charnwoodensis | Charnwood Forest, UK; White Sea, Russia | ||||
| Pteridinium | simplex | WS | N | southern Namibia; Flinders Range, Australia; White Sea, Russia ?Mackenzie Mts, Canada | Gurich, 1930; | |
| Ramellina | pennata | WS | White Sea, Russia | Fedonkin, 1980, 1985 | ||
| Rangea | schneiderhoehni | WS | South Australia; White Sea, Russia | Gurich, 1930 | ||
| Rugoconites | enigmatis | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia | Glaessner & Wade, 1966 | ||
| Rugoconites | tenuirugosus | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia | Wade, 1972 | ||
| Sekwia | excentrica | Mackenzie Mtns, Canada; Uttar Pradesh, India | Hofmann, 1981 | |||
| Shepshedia | palmata | Charnwood Forest, UK | Boynton & Ford, 1995 | |||
| Skinnera | brooksi | NW Territory, South Australia, Australia | Wade, 1969 | |||
| Solza | margarita | WS | White Sea, Russia | ?Similar to Kimberella | Ivantsov et al. 2004 | |
| Spriggina | floundersi | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia | Glaessner, 1958, 1980 | ||
| Stauinidia | crucicula | WS | White Sea, Russia | Fedonkin 1985 | ||
| Suvorovella | aldanica | N | Southern Namibia; Maya River, Russia | Vologdin and Maslov, 1960 | ||
| Swartpuntia | germsi | WS | N | southern Namibia; White Sea, Russia | Narbonne et al. 1997 | |
| Tamga | hamulifera | WS | White Sea, Russia | |||
| Temnoxa | molluscula | WS | White Sea, Russia | ? Mollusc | Ivantsov et al. 2004 | |
| Thectardis | avalonensis | A | Avalon Penninsula, Newfoundland | ? Sponge | Clapham et al. 2004 | |
| Tirasiana | cocardia | Ural Mts. | ? Holdfast | |||
| Trepassia | wardae | A | Mistaken Pt. Fm, Newfoundland | repalcement for Charnia wardi | Narbonne et al. 2009 | |
| Tribrachidium | heraldicum | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia; White Sea, Russia; Dniester River, Podolia, Ukraine; Uttar Pradesh, India | Glaessner & Wade, 1966 | ||
| Triforillonia | costellae | Avalon Penninsula, Newfoundland | Triradial disc | Gehling et al. 2000 | ||
| Vaizitsinia | sophia | WS | White Sea, Russia | frond | Sokolov & Fedonkin, 1984' Fedonkin, 1985 | |
| Valdainia | plumosa | Dniester Valley, Podolia, Ukraine | generally considered a Vendomiid | Fedonkin | ||
| Vaveliksia | vana | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia; White Sea, Russia | |||
| Vaveliksia | velikanovi | Dniester Valley, Podolia, Ukraine | ||||
| Velancorina | martina | N | southern Namibia | Pflug, 1966 | ||
| Vendella | haelenicae | Dniester Valley, Podolia, Ukraine | Gureev, 1987 | |||
| Vendella | sokolovi | Dniester Valley, Podolia, Ukraine | Gureev, 1987 | |||
| Vendia | rachiata | WS | White Sea, Russia | Ivantsov 2001 | ||
| Vendia | sokolovi | WS | Yarenskk Borehole, Russia | apparent bilaterian | Keller, 1969 | |
| Vendoconularia | triradiata | WS | White Sea, Russia | similar to conularid | Ivantsov & Fedonkin, 2002 | |
| Vendomia | menneri | WS | White Sea, Russia | Keller, 1976 | ||
| Ventogyrus | chistyakovi | WS | White Sea, Russia | Ivantsov & Grazhdankin, 1997 | ||
| Veprina | undosa | WS | White Sea, Russia | Fedonkin, 1980 | ||
| Vladimissa | missarzhevskii | WS | White Sea, Russia | flattened organism | Fedonkin, 1985 | |
| Windermeria | aitkeni | Selwi Brook, N. Mackenzie Mts, Canada | Narbonne, 1994 | |||
| Yangtziramulus | zhangi | Yangtze Gorge, China | Xiao et al. 2005 | |||
| Yarnemia | ascidiformis | WS | White Sea, Russia | Chistyakova et al. 1984 | ||
| Yelovichnus | gracillis | WS | White Sea, Russia | may be algal or protist | Fedonkin, 1985 | |
| Yorgia | waggoneri | WS | Flinders Ranges, Australia; White Sea, Russia | Bilaterian | Ivantsov, 1999 | |
| Zolotytsia | biserialis | WS | White Sea; Podolia, Ukraine; Uttar Pradesh, India | Fedonkin 1985 |
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