Namapoikia
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namapoikia-227-1332938
title:
Namapoikia
text:
Namapoikia rietoogensis is among the earliest known animals to produce a calcareous skeleton. Known from the Ediacaran period, before the Cambrian explosion of calcifying animals, the long-lived organism grew up to a metre in diameter and resembles a colonial sponge. It was an encruster, filling vertical fissures in the reefs in which it originally grew. The fossil was first found in the Omkyk Member of the Nama Group from Rietoog in southern Namibia, in association with other calcifying fossils
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wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct clade of animals
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Namapoikia
date created:
2007-01-13T12:12:45Z
date modified:
2024-09-15T02:27:19Z
main entity:
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13
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