Holotype specimen of Arumberia banksi, a convex hyporelief on the base of a sandstone bed from the Ediacaran Arumbera Sandstone near Alice Springs, Australia
Arumberia is an enigmatic fossil from the Ediacaran period[1] originally described from the Arumbera Sandstone, Northern Territory, Australia[2] but also found in the Urals,[3] East Siberia,[4] England and Wales,[5] Northern France,[5] the Avalon Peninsula[5], India[6] and Brazil.[7] Several morphologically distinct species are recognized.[3][8]
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^Glaessner, M. F.; Walter, M. R. (1975). "New Precambrian fossils from the Arumbera Sandstone, Northern Territory, Australia". Alcheringa: An Australasian Journal of Palaeontology. 1 (1): 59–69. Bibcode:1975Alch....1...59G. doi:10.1080/03115517508619480.
^Bogolepova, O. K.; Gubanov, A. P.; Howard, J. P.; Gómez-Pérez, M. (2010). "Arumberia and other microbial mats from the Neoproterozoic-Cambrian strata of East Siberia". Geophysical Research Abstracts. 12: 3143. Bibcode:2010EGUGA..12.3143B.