Arkarua adami

Taxonavigation

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Cladus: Unikonta
Cladus: Opisthokonta
Cladus: Holozoa
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Superphylum: Deuterostomia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Subphylum: Pelmatozoa
Classis: †Edrioasteroidea
Genus: †Arkarua
Species: †Arkarua adami

Name

Arkarua adami Gehling, 1987

Holotype: SAMP26768.

Type locality: "collected from a 6 m interval of sandstone interbedded with claystone, 130 m above the base of the Rawnsley Quartzite in a section (S31) near the eastern end of the Chace Range" (Flinders Ranges, South Australia, Australia).

References

Primary references

Gehling, J.G. 1987. Earliest known echinoderm — a new Ediacaran fossil from the Pound Subgroup of South Australia. Alcheringa 11(4): 337–345. DOI: 10.1080/03115518708619143 .