{"id":974,"date":"2023-05-30T15:34:47","date_gmt":"2023-05-30T06:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/?page_id=974"},"modified":"2023-06-02T11:01:37","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T01:31:37","slug":"rugoconites-enigmaticus-rugoconites-tenuirugosus","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/fossils\/early-life\/ediacaran-fauna\/rugoconites-enigmaticus-rugoconites-tenuirugosus\/","title":{"rendered":"<i>Rugoconites enigmaticus, Rugoconites tenuirugosus<\/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>Rugoconites enigmaticus <\/em>&amp; <em>Rugoconites tenuirugosus<\/em><\/h1>\n<p><em>Rugoconites enigmaticus<\/em> and <em>Rugoconites tenuirugosus<\/em> are triradial, fractally branching organisms from the Ediacara Member of South Australia. Thought to be sessile, they can range from less than 1 cm in diameter up to 20 cm. The main difference between the species is that <em>R. tenuirugosus<\/em> has more and much finer branches. One of the more enigmatic taxa, little is known about their biology and ecology.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Specimen number: <\/strong>SAM P55583, SAM P49259<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;1025&#8243; img_size=&#8221;medium&#8221; add_caption=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_single_image image=&#8221;1027&#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]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRmVkNzJlYWU0LTk1ZTQtNDNhYi05OWQ5LTA0YjBkOGM4YWMyOSUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]SAM P55583<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Published\/figured in Hall <em>et al. <\/em>2018 (fig. 1D)<\/li>\n<li>Hall, C. S., Droser, M. L. and Gehling, J. G. 2018. Sizing up <em>Rugoconites<\/em>: a study of the ontogeny and ecology of an enigmatic Ediacaran genus<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_raw_html]JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cubW9ycGhvc291cmNlLm9yZyUyRnV2Lmh0bWwlMjMlM0ZtYW5pZmVzdCUzRCUyRm1hbmlmZXN0cyUyRmY3NTk1M2U4LWEzNDQtNDhmZi1hMzZkLTMzYTJjNDYxMDYzYSUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNTYwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDIwJTIyJTIwYWxsb3dmdWxsc2NyZWVuJTIwZnJhbWVib3JkZXIlM0QlMjIwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF[\/vc_raw_html][vc_column_text]SAM P49259<\/p>\n<p>South Australian Museum gallery specimen.[\/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] Rugoconites enigmaticus &amp; Rugoconites tenuirugosus Rugoconites enigmaticus and Rugoconites tenuirugosus are triradial, fractally branching organisms from the Ediacara Member of South Australia. Thought to be sessile, they can range from less than 1 cm in diameter up to 20 cm. The main difference between the species is that R. tenuirugosus has more and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":0,"parent":380,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-974","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/974\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.flinders.edu.au\/vamp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}