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- Title
Proterozoic modular biomineralized metazoan from the Nama Group, Namibia.
- Authors
Wood, Rachel A; Grotzinger, John P; Dickson, J A D
- Abstract
We describe a Proterozoic, fully biomineralized metazoan from the Omkyk Member (approximately 549 million years before the present) of the northern Nama Group, Namibia. Namapoikia rietoogensis gen. et sp. nov. is up to 1 meter in diameter and bears a complex and robust biomineralized skeleton; it probably represents a cnidarian or poriferan. Namapoikia encrusts perpendicular to the walls of vertical synsedimentary fissures in microbial reefs. This finding implies that large, modular metazoans with biologically controlled mineralization appeared some 15 million years earlier than previously documented.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2002, Vol 296, Issue 5577, p2383
- ISSN
1095-9203
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1071599