Bomakellia

Bomakellia kelleri is a species of poorly understood Ediacaran fossil organism represented by only one specimen discovered in the Ust'-Pinega Formation of the Syuzma River (in Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia) from rocks dated 555 million years old. Bomakellia was originally interpreted as an early Arthropod. A study by B. M. Waggoner even concluded that the organism was a primitive anomalocarid and erroneously identified the ridges of supposed Cephalon as being eyes making Bomakellia the oldest known animal with vision. But this hypothesis has not reached acceptance, nor acknowledgement.

Bomakellia
Temporal range:
Bomakellia kelleri, restored as a rangeomorph
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Petalonamae
Family: Charniidae
Genus: Bomakellia
Fedonkin, 1990
Species:
B. kelleri
Binomial name
Bomakellia kelleri
Fedonkin, 1985

A closer examination of the specimen has identified a tetraradial symmetry in the body, and a frond-like morphology which closely resembles that of Rangea – the current interpretation of Bomakellia is as a rangeomorph frond, which could possibly mean that it's closely related to the Chinese Paracharnia.

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