Name - Namacalathus

Life Sciences Identifier (LSID)

urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:1482624 [metadata]

Variants and Synonyms

• Namacalathus Grotzinger, Watters & Knoll 2000

Reported Taxonomic Ranks

Genus

Reported Taxonomic Hierarchies

Recent Publications

• Extinction of Cloudina and Namacalathus at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary in Oman.
• A section of Vendian in the east of West Siberian Plate (based on data from the Borehole Vostok 3).
• Extensive metazoan reefs from the Ediacaran Nama Group, Namibia: the rise of benthic suspension feeding.
• Ediacaran skeletal metazoan interpreted as a lophophorate.
• Calcium isotope evidence that the earliest metazoan biomineralizers formed aragonite shells.

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