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| Ernietta Temporal range: Ediacaran
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| CGI reconstruction of a E. plateauensis colony | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | †Petalonamae |
| Class: | †Erniettomorpha |
| Genus: | †Ernietta |
| Species: | †E. plateauensis
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| Binomial name | |
| †Ernietta plateauensis Pflug, 1966[1]
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Ernietta is an extinct genus of Ediacaran organisms with an infaunal lifestyle.[2] Fossil preservations and modeling indicate this organism was sessile and “sack”-shaped. It survived partly buried in substrate, with an upturned bell-shaped frill exposed above the sediment-water interface.[3] Ernietta have been recovered from present-day Namibia,[4] and are a part of the Ediacaran biota, a late Proterozoic radiation of multicellular organisms. They are among the earliest complex multicellular organisms and are known from the late Ediacaran (ca. 548 Ma to 541 Ma).[3] Ernietta plateauensis remains the sole species of the genus.[2]
- ^ "Name - Ernietta Pflug 1966". ION - Index to Organism Names. Archived from the original on 2012-03-24.
- ^ a b Elliott, David A.; Trusler, Peter W.; Narbonne, Guy M.; Vickers-Rich, Patricia; Morton, Nicole; Hall, Mike; Hoffmann, Karl H.; Schneider, Gabi I.C. (9 September 2016). "Ernietta from the late Edicaran Nama Group, Namibia". Journal of Paleontology. 90 (6): 1017–1026. Bibcode:2016JPal...90.1017E. doi:10.1017/jpa.2016.94. S2CID 132152164.
- ^ a b Gibson, Brandt M.; Rahman, Imran A.; Maloney, Katie M.; Racicot, Rachel A.; Mocke, Helke; Laflamme, Marc; Darroch, Simon A. F. (2019-06-01). "Gregarious suspension feeding in a modular Ediacaran organism". Science Advances. 5 (6): eaaw0260. Bibcode:2019SciA....5..260G. doi:10.1126/sciadv.aaw0260. ISSN 2375-2548. PMC 6584682. PMID 31223655.
- ^ Czaplewski, John J. "PBDB Navigator". paleobiodb.org. Retrieved 2020-06-07.