... animals at all, but land-based lichens and microbial colonies. Here we report evidence for animal-like behavior in a submerged setting in a key Ediacaran form, Aspidella terranovica Billings 1872, a discoidal fossil from the ca. 560 Ma Fermeuse Formation of Newfoundland (Canada). We describe sedimentary...

...Figure 1. Fossils of Aspidella terranovica from the Fermeuse Formation at Ferryland, Newfoundland, 47.01439°N 52.89151°W, (A; with cover bed above and original surface below), with rhizomorphs in a presumed uprooted specimen (B) and in vertically oriented thin section (C), compared...

.... Anderson M.M. , 2000 , The first named Ediacaran body fossil: Aspidella terranovica : Palaeontology , v. 43 , p. 427 – 456 , doi:10.1111/j.0031-0239.2000.00134.x . Liu A.G. McIlroy D. Brasier M.D. , 2010a , First evidence for locomotion in the Ediacara biota from the 565 Ma...

...Table 1.— Morphometric comparison of Miaohe concretions from Maxi and Aspidella terranovica from the Fermeuse Formation . ...

...Figure 7 —Outcrop photos of Aspidella terranovica Billings, 1872 ( 1–6 ), and Aspidella -like Dubiofossil A ( 7 ), from Bonavista Peninsula. All scale bars graduated in cm, except for 5 and 7 , which are in dm. Photos in 1–4 are retrodeformed. 1 , Multi-ringed, Spriggia -like morph...

... in the types collection of the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM) in Toronto. Genus Aspidella Billings, 1872 Aspidella terranovica Billings, 1872 , by original monotypy Aspidella terranovica Billings, 1872 Figure 3 .6, 3 .8 The new specimen is an incomplete tripartite...

... terranovica Billings, 1872 Figs. 4A–4F Fig. 4. Diverse morphs of Aspidella terranovica in Miette Group. Scale divisions in millimetres. (A) Cyclomedusa-like epirelief, locality E (RBCM.EH2010.003.0001). (B) Cyclomedusa-like epirelief, locality M (RBCM.EH2010.003.0002). (C) Spriggia-like...

... et al., 1991 ). The distribution of fossils is closely related to lithology in these successions ( Fig. 1 ). Macrofossils in the Aim Formation are restricted to TST and early HST facies and consist almost exclusively of soft-bodied biota: Gaojiashania ( Fig. 2A ), Aspidella terranovica...

... of growing to 2 m in length ( Narbonne & Gehling 2003 ); (2) the shorter rangeomorph Charnia antecedens Laflamme et al . (2007) ; (3) the enigmatic triangular form Thectardis avalonensis Clapham et al . (2004) ; (4) rare morphs of Aspidella terranovica , a taxon thought to record the holdfasts...

.... , Narbonne , G. M. , and Anderson , M. M. , 2000 , The first named Ediacaran body fossil, Aspidella terranovica : Palaeontology , 43 . 427 – 456 . Glaessner , M. F. , 1979 , Precambrian : in R. A. Robinson , C. Teichert eds. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part...

... specimen in Mass-Flow Sands. D: Dickinsonia brachina , transported specimen in Mass-Flow Sands. E: Aspidella terranovica and Funisia dorothea , in Sheet-Flow Sands. F: Tribrachidium heraldicum , in Wave-Base Sands. G: Rangeomorph, in Delta-Front Sands. H: Spriggina floundersi , in Wave-Base Sands. I...