Corumbella

Corumbella is an extinct genus of terminal-Ediacaran animals. It is the only genus in the monotypic family Corumbellidae, and is represented by a single species Corumbella werneri.^[2] It possessed a carapace made up of thick polygonal rings^[3] in which plates with pores and papillae^[4] attest to the advent of skeletogenesis in the latest Neoproterozoic metazoan.^[3][4] It was sessile and somewhat resembles the later conulariids,^[3][5] though this similarity is likely superficial; its secretion of an aragonitic scleritome suggests a eumetazoan affinity.^[6]

Corumbella Temporal range: Ediacaran, 543 Ma[1] PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N ↓
C. werneri reconstruction[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Class:	Scyphozoa
Family:	†Corumbellidae Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982[1]
Genus:	†Corumbella Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982[1]
Species:	†C. werneri
Binomial name
†Corumbella werneri Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982[1]

See also

• Cloudina
• Saarina
• Sinotubulites
• Somatohelix

List of Ediacaran genera