<I>Aspidella</I> (IMAGE)

Vanderbilt University

<I>Aspidella</I>

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The disc-like fossils shown here are the preserved remains of holdfast structures used by the Ediacaran species Aspidella that went extinct about a million years after these individuals died and were preserved.

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Simon Darroch, Vanderbilt University

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