Andiva Temporal range: Ediacaran, around
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Fossil of Andiva ivantsovi | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | †Proarticulata |
Genus: | †Andiva Fedonkin, 2002 |
Species: | †A. ivantsovi
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Binomial name | |
†Andiva ivantsovi Fedonkin 2002
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Andiva ivantsovi is a Vendian fossil, identified to be a bilaterian triploblastic animal in the Ediacaran phylum Proarticulata, known from the Winter Coast, White Sea, Russia. It was first discovered in 1977, and described as a new species in a new genus by Mikhail Fedonkin in 2002.[1] It lived about 555 million years ago. Fossils of Andiva also occur in South Australia.[1][2] All known fossils of Andiva are external molds.[3]