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Cloudina fossils from the Precambrian of Brazil.

Cloudina is famous for being one of only a few, very early fossil organisms that had a mineralized shell. It only occurs in ~uppermost Precambrian rocks (about 550 million years old), sometimes in high abundances. In the rock shown here, the dark gray, tubular structures are the Cloudina specimens. Cloudina shells consisted of a series of nested cones (<a href="http://palaeos.com/proterozoic/neoproterozoic/ediacaran/images/Cloudina.jpg" rel="noreferrer nofollow">palaeos.com/proterozoic/neoproterozoic/ediacaran/images/C...</a>). Preserved soft parts are unknown.

Classification: Animalia, Incertae Sedis

Stratigraphy: unspecified Neoproterozoic-aged unit

Locality: unspecified site near Corumba, southern Brazil


See info. at:

<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudinidae" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloudinidae</a>
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