Sprigginidae

Sprigginidae
Temporal range: 635.0–541.0 Ma Ediacaran
Spriggina floundersi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Proarticulata
Class: Cephalozoa
Family: Sprigginidae
Ivantsov, 1999
Type species
Spriggina floundersi
Glaessner, 1958
Genera

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Sprigginidae is an extinct family of cephalozoans characterized by having a greater number of isomers than its sister taxon, Yorgiidae. They lived approximately 635 million years ago, in the Ediacaran period.