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Nilpenia
Extinct species of sediment-feeder From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Nilpenia rossi is an Ediacaran sediment feeder,[1] with specimens only having been described in the Flinders Ranges of South Australia. With a diameter ranging up to 30 cm, it is considered to represent the largest (by area) Ediacaran organism.[2]
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Morphology
Nilpenia trace fossils consist of two zones, a complex central area surrounded by radiating, branching structures. The fossils are interpreted to have uniquely lived millimeters above the actual sediment, opposed to views of how other organisms were mat-encrusters, which interacted within microbial mats on the seafloor.
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