Corumbella

{{Short description|Extinct genus of Ediacaran animals}} {{Speciesbox | fossil_range = Ediacaran, {{fossil range|543|ref=<ref name="Pacheco2015">{{cite journal | last1 = Pacheco | first1 = Mírian L. A. Forancelli | last2 = Galante | first2 = Douglas | last3 = Rodrigues | first3 = Fabio | last4 = Leme | first4 = Juliana de M. | last5 = Bidola | first5 = Pidassa | last6 = Hagadorn | first6 = Whitey | last7 = Stockmar | first7 = Marco | last8 = Herzen | first8 = Julia | last9 = Rudnitzki | first9 = Isaac D. | last10 = Pfeiffer | first10 = Franz | last11 = Marques | first11 = Antonio C. | date = 2015 | title = Insights into the skeletonization, lifestyle, and affinity of the unusual Ediacaran fossil Corumbella | journal = PLOS ONE | volume = 10 | issue = 3 | article-number = e0114219 | doi = 10.1371/journal.pone.0114219 | pmid=25822998 | pmc=4379158| bibcode = 2015PLoSO..1014219P | doi-access = free }}</ref>}} | image = Corumbella_werneri_001A.jpg | image_caption= ''C. werneri'' reconstruction<ref name="Pacheco2015" /> | grandparent_authority = Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982<ref name="Pacheco2015" /> | parent_authority = Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982<ref name="Pacheco2015" /> | taxon = Corumbella werneri | authority = Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug, and Walde, 1982<ref name="Pacheco2015" /> }}

'''''Corumbella''''' is an extinct genus of terminal-Ediacaran animals. It is the only genus in the monotypic family '''Corumbellidae''', and is represented by a single species '''''Corumbella werneri'''''.<ref name=Hahn1982>{{cite journal| author =Hahn, G. |author2=Hahn, R. |author3=Leonardos, O.H. |author4=Pflug, H.D. |author5=Walde, D.H.G. | title=Körperlich erhaltene Scyphozoen-Reste aus dem Jungpräkambrium Brasiliens | journal=Geologica et Palaeontologica | year=1982 | volume=16 | pages=1–18}}</ref> It possessed a carapace made up of thick polygonal rings<ref name="Pacheco2011">{{cite journal|last1=Pacheco|first1=M. L. A. F.|last2=Leme|first2=J.|last3=Machado|first3=A.|year=2011|title=Taphonomic analysis and geometric modelling for the reconstitution of the Ediacaran metazoan Corumbella werneri Hahn et al. 1982 (Tamengo Formation, Corumbá Basin, Brazil)|journal=Journal of Taphonomy|volume=9|issue=4|pages=269–283|url=https://www.academia.edu/25159495}}</ref> in which plates with pores and papillae<ref name="Warren2012">{{Cite journal | last1 = Warren | first1 = L. V. | last2 = Pacheco | first2 = M. L. A. F. | last3 = Fairchild | first3 = T. R. | last4 = Simoes | first4 = M. G. | last5 = Riccomini | first5 = C. | last6 = Boggiani | first6 = P. C. | last7 = Caceres | first7 = A. A. | doi = 10.1130/G33005.1 | title = The dawn of animal skeletogenesis: Ultrastructural analysis of the Ediacaran metazoan Corumbella werneri | journal = Geology | volume = 40 | issue = 8 | page = 691 | year = 2012 | bibcode = 2012Geo....40..691W }}</ref> attest to the advent of skeletogenesis in the latest Neoproterozoic metazoan.<ref name="Pacheco2011"/><ref name="Warren2012"/> It was sessile and somewhat resembles the later conulariids,<ref name="Pacheco2011"/><ref>{{cite journal|last1=Babcock|first1=L. E.|last2=Grunow|first2=A. M.|last3=Sadowski|first3=G. R.|last4=Leslie|first4=S. A.|year=2005|title=Corumbella, an Ediacaran-grade organism from the Late Neoproterozoic of Brazil|journal=Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology|volume=220|issue=1–2|pages=7–18|doi=10.1016/j.palaeo.2003.01.001|bibcode=2005PPP...220....7B }}</ref> though this similarity is likely superficial; its secretion of an aragonitic scleritome suggests a eumetazoan affinity.<ref>{{Cite journal | doi = 10.1016/j.isci.2022.105676| title = Ediacaran Corumbella has a cataphract calcareous skeleton with controlled biomineralization| year = 2022| last1 = Osés| first1 = Gabriel Ladeira| last2 = Wood| first2 = Rachel| last3 = Romero| first3 = Guilherme Raffaeli| last4 = Evangelista Martins Prado| first4 = Gustavo Marcondes| last5 = Bidola| first5 = Pidassa| last6 = Herzen| first6 = Julia| last7 = Pfeiffer| first7 = Franz| last8 = Stampar| first8 = Sérgio Nascimento| last9 = Alves Forancelli Pacheco| first9 = Mírian Liza| journal = iScience| volume = 25| issue = 12| article-number = 105676| pmid = 36561886| pmc = 9763863| bibcode = 2022iSci...25j5676O}}</ref>

==See also== * ''Cloudina'' * ''Saarina'' * ''Sinotubulites'' * ''Somatohelix'' List of Ediacaran genera

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Category:Monotypic prehistoric cnidarian genera Category:Scyphozoa Category:Ediacaran life Category:Fossil taxa described in 1982