Inaria

Inaria
Temporal range: Ediacaran
Inaria karli with Albumares
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria (?)
Subphylum: Anthozoa (?)
Genus: Inaria
Gehling, 1988
Species:
I. karli
Binomial name
Inaria karli
Gehling, 1988

Inaria is an Ediacaran fossil. It is found in the Chace Range in Australia, and the White Sea area in Russia.

It has radial symmetry and has been described as a tentacle-less cnidarian. The organism had a sac-like body that resembled a cluster of garlic or conical flask in shape, with a broad bulbous base embedded in the mud, and a tube extending above the sea floor. The body cavity of Inaria was a single chamber with the inner surface of the body wall forming deep invaginations that partitioned the cavernous stomach into several septa. In its deep environment it seems that it was the only species.

Inaria was found in lower shoreface muds. Australia Post issued a 50 cent stamp featuring Inaria on 21 April 2005 in a series entitled Creatures of the slime.

One species known as Inaria karli was named by Jim Gehling in 1988.[1]

See also

List of Ediacaran genera

References

  1. ^ Gehling, James G. (1988). "A cnidarian of actinian-grade from the Ediacaran Pound Subgroup, South Australia". Alcheringa. 12 (4): 299–314. doi:10.1080/03115518808619129.
  • Grazhdankin, D. (2000). "The Ediacaran genus Inaria: a taphonomic/morphodynamic analysis". Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie - Abhandlungen. 216: 1–34.
  • McMenamin, Mark A. S. (1998). The Garden of Ediacara. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 0-231-10559-2.

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