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Kimberella is an
extinct genus of
marine bilaterian known only from
rocks of the
Ediacaran period. The slug-like
organism fed by
scratching the microbial...
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Protostomia includes the
ecdysozoans and spiralians, as well as the
extinct Kimberella.
Together with the Xenacoelomorpha,
these constitute the
large clade Bilateria...
- dorothea)
suggest relationships to
Porifera or
Cnidaria (e.g. Auroralumina).
Kimberella may show a
similarity to molluscs, and
other organisms have been thought...
- in
Ediacaran sediments, and the
first bona fide
bilaterian fossil is
Kimberella,
dating to 555 million
years ago.
Earlier fossils are controversial; the...
- is a
controversial subject. In
addition to the
debates about whether Kimberella and any of the "halwaxiids" were
molluscs or
closely related to molluscs...
- million-year-old
Kimberella was a
member of the protostomes. If so, this
means the
protostome and
deuterostome lineages must have
split some time
before Kimberella appeared—at...
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falls apart if the organisms'
characteristics are
changed even slightly:
Kimberella and
Odontogriphus are early,
primitive molluscs,
without sclerites or...
- debate,[clarification needed]
having been
interpreted as
early molluscs (
Kimberella),
echinoderms (Arkarua) and
arthropods (Spriggina, Parvancorina, Yilingia)...
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including cnidarians and
early bilaterians, as well as mollusc-like
Kimberella. Hard-bodied
organisms with
mineralized s**** also
began their fossil...
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Ecdysozoa Spiralia †
Kimberella...
