Atakia

Atakia
Temporal range: 571–551 Ma
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Genus:
Atakia
Type species
Atakia vermiformis

Atakia is a genus of animals that were members of the Ediacaran fauna, which existed from 635 to 541 million years ago. Discovered in Ukraine in 1979 by Palij, the genus Atakia are soft-bodied Metazoan cast in Vendian sediments found on the Eastern European Platform formations.[1] Oftentimes the genus Atakia is used as a comparison to other genera, because very little information is known about this genus.[2] There is a discontinuity in identification because the genus Fustiglyphus Vialov is debated to be the same as Atakia but found in different regions.[3]

  1. ^ Palij, V. M. (1979). "Soft-bodied Metazoa and trace fossils of Vendian and Lower Cambrian, in: Keller, B. M., Rozanov, A. Yu., (Eds.), Upper Precambrian and Cambrian Paleontology of East-European Platform". Nauka, Moskva: 49–82.
  2. ^ Мєнасова, A. (2011). "Деякі Закономірності Вертикального Поширення Викопної Фауни Відкладів Венду Поділля". Геологія.
  3. ^ Ivantsov, A. Yu. (2018). "Upper Vendian Macrofossils of Eastern Europe. Middle and Southern Ural". Borissiak Paleontological Institute and Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow.