Dickinsonia was an animal

[Malcolmt]

Been some good invertebrate articles out there lately.....

 

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-mysterious-ancient-creature-animal.html 

[Doctor Mud]

Very interesting, thanks for sharing.

[Fossildude19]

Thanks for the link, Malcolm.  

[Shamalama]

Cool! Nice article Malcolm.

[FossilDAWG]

Interesting approach to the problem.  Like a lot of good ideas, it seems obvious in hindsight and makes me wonder why nobody (including me) thought of this before.  Maybe it would work for other ambiguous Ediacarian organisms.

 

Don

[doushantuo]

What i find fascinating is that the Evans/Gehling 2017 PLOS article doesn't seem to mention the RSP "B" article among the references.

You'd think that with modern communications technology ,scientific cooperation and all?

 

evansjournal_pone.0176874.pdf

(outtake below)

BTW,for those unfamiliar with the Ediacaran and related subjects:the taxon's spelling in this thread is a tad unlucky

 

[doushantuo]

 

Hoekze, 2017; ia developnt.pdf

[doushantuo]

I thought Sperling & Vinther's 2010 article* made a good case for "animal" affinities(syncytial organization AND motility),so one can argue(IMHO) about the newness

of this latest conclusion

* in Fruitbat's library,of course

JProc_RSNSW_Vol_147_2_Goodn.pdf

[Malcolmt]

52 minutes ago, doushantuo said:

BTW,for those unfamiliar with the Ediacaran and related subjects:the taxon's spelling in this thread is a tad unlucky

Never claimed I could spell

[doushantuo]

I do not claim to be able to read,so it's all good.