{"id":972,"date":"2023-05-30T15:30:03","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=972"},"modified":"2023-06-02T10:54:00","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T01:24:00","slug":"eoandromeda-octobrachiata","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/eoandromeda-octobrachiata\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Eoandromeda octobrachiata<\/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>Eoandromeda octobrachiata<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><em>Eoandromeda octobrachiata<\/em>, an octoradial spiral organism found in Nilpena Ediacara National Park, South Australia as an external mould in sandstone and in South China as a carbonaceous compression in shale. Named after the Andromeda galaxy, this 8-armed spiral organism has conflicting hypotheses regarding its mode of life (sessile vs pelagic) and where it fits in the tree of life. Grew up to 5 cm in diameter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specimen number: <\/strong>SAM P42440, SAM P44349<br \/>\n<strong>Geological age:\u00a0<\/strong>Ediacaran<br \/>\n<strong>State\/territory:<\/strong>\u00a0South Australia<br \/>\n<strong>Locality\/site:\u00a0<\/strong>Flinders Ranges<\/p>\n<p>(Text: Tory L. Botha and Diego C. Garc\u00eda-Bellido, UofA and SAM)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/3&#8243;][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1026&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRjkzOWRhN2FlLTA1NmEtNDc4OS05NWYwLTc3OTM0ZTMzMWY5MCUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]SAM P42440<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published\/figured in Zhu <em>et al. <\/em>2008 (fig. 2A, B)<\/li>\n<li>Zhu, M., Gehling, J. G., Xiao, S., Zhao, Y. and Droser, M. L. 2008. Eight-armed Ediacara fossil preserved in contrasting taphonomic windows from China and Australia. <em>Geology<\/em>, <strong>36<\/strong>, 867-870.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRjFhODkzN2Y4LTUyODAtNDZmMy05ZGFkLWUxMzdlMzQ2YWU4ZCUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]SAM P44349<\/p>\n<p>South Australian Museum gallery specimen, imaged by Tory Botha.[\/vc_column_text][\/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] Eoandromeda octobrachiata Eoandromeda octobrachiata, an octoradial spiral organism found in Nilpena Ediacara National Park, South Australia as an external mould in sandstone and in South China as a carbonaceous compression in shale. Named after the Andromeda galaxy, this 8-armed spiral organism has conflicting hypotheses regarding its mode of life (sessile vs pelagic) and [&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-972","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/972","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=972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}