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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...
- 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...
- debate,[clarification needed] having been interpreted as early molluscs (Kimberella), echinoderms (Arkarua) and arthropods (Spriggina, Parvancorina, Yilingia)...
- 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...
- is a controversial subject. In addition to the debates about whether Kimberella and any of the "halwaxiids" were molluscs or closely related to molluscs...
- including cnidarians and early bilaterians, as well as mollusc-like Kimberella. Hard-bodied organisms with mineralized s**** also began their fossil...
- falls apart if the organisms' characteristics are changed even slightly: Kimberella and Odontogriphus are early, primitive molluscs, without sclerites or...
- Ecdysozoa SpiraliaKimberella...