Windermeria

Windermeria aitkeni (named after Windermere, British Columbia, Canada) is a Precambrian organism from the Blueflower Formation of Sekwi Brook North, in the Northwest Territories of Canada. Only one specimen has been found. Windermeria is a small (16.4 × 7.9 mm) segmented elongated oval fossil with eight nearly equal-sized segments arranged transverse to medial furrow in opposite arrangement.^[2] Windermeria superficially resembles a diminutive Dickinsonia and as such is the only possible dickinsoniid proarticulatan known exclusively from outside of Australia and East Europe.^[3]

Windermeria Temporal range: Ediacaran
artist's reconstruction
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	†Proarticulata
Class:	†Dipleurozoa
Family:	†Dickinsoniidae
Genus:	†Windermeria
Species:	†W. aitkeni
Binomial name
†Windermeria aitkeni Narbonne, 1994[1]

See also

• List of Ediacaran genera