{"id":969,"date":"2023-05-30T15:23:58","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T05:53:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=969"},"modified":"2023-06-03T07:08:11","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T21:38:11","slug":"969-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/969-2\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Spriggina floundersi<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]<\/p>\n<h1><em>Spriggina floundersi<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><em>Spriggina floundersi<\/em>, the state fossil of South Australia, is only found within the Rawnsley Quartzite of South Australia. Described as being bilaterally symmetrical and having a broadly \u2018segmented\u2019 body plan, with a \u2018head\u2019 and \u2018tail\u2019 end. Not much is known about this enigmatic organism, and its preserved features may not be homologous to those seen in modern animals. While hypothesised to have been capable of movement, no direct evidence has been published. About 2\u20135 cm long.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specimen number:\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Geological age: <\/strong>Ediacaran<br \/>\n<strong>State\/territory:<\/strong> South Australia<br \/>\n<strong>Locality\/site: <\/strong>Flinders Ranges<\/p>\n<p>(Text: Tory L. Botha and Diego C. Garc\u00eda-Bellido, UofA and SAM)<\/p>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1043&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_raw_html]JTNDcCUzRUNPTUlORyUyMFNPT04lMjBJJTIwYW0lMjByYXclMjBodG1sJTIwYmxvY2suJTNDYnIlMkYlM0VDbGljayUyMGVkaXQlMjBidXR0b24lMjB0byUyMGNoYW5nZSUyMHRoaXMlMjBodG1sJTNDJTJGcCUzRQ==[\/vc_raw_html][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;2\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text] Spriggina floundersi Spriggina floundersi, the state fossil of South Australia, is only found within the Rawnsley Quartzite of South Australia. Described as being bilaterally symmetrical and having a broadly \u2018segmented\u2019 body plan, with a \u2018head\u2019 and \u2018tail\u2019 end. Not much is known about this enigmatic organism, and its preserved features may not be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-969","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}