This is a list of all described Ediacaran genera, including the Ediacaran biota. It contains 241 genera.
Name | Authors | Year | Taxonomy | Validity | Notes | Country | |
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Affinovendia[1] | Sokolov | 1984 | reinterpretated as trace fossil Treptichnus lublinensis and Cambrian in age | ||||
Albumares[2] [3] | Fedonkin | 1976 | Trilobozoa | ||||
Amorphia[4] | Grytsenko | 2016 | Ukraine | ||||
Anabylia[5] | Vodanjuk | 1989 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | ||||
Andiva[6] | Fedonkin | 2002 | Proarticulata | ||||
Anfesta[7] | Fedonkin | 1984 | Trilobozoa | ||||
Annulatubus[8] | Calla A. Carbone et al. | 2015 | Canada | ||||
Annulusichnus[9] | Zhang | 1986 | junior synonym of Gaojiashania, tubular fossil | China | |||
Arborea[10] | Glaessner et Wade | 1966 | Was considered a junior synonym of Charniodiscus, now thought to be a colonial Eumetazoan unrelated to Rangeomorphs[11] | nowrap | Australia | ||
Archaeaspinus[12] | Ivantsov | 2007 | Proarticulata | ||||
Archaeichnium[13] | Glaessner | 1963 | tubular conical fossil | Namibia | |||
Archangelia | Fedonkin | 1979 | Bilaterally symmetric organism with ovoid shape, and midline axial zone. Junior synonym of Onegia nenoxa (according to Grazhdankin, Ph.D. ms.).[14] [15] | ||||
Arimasia[16] | Runnegar et al. | 2024 | Porifera | Early sponge, possibly a member of Archaeocyatha. | Namibia | ||
Arkarua[17] | Gehling | 1987 | Australia | ||||
Armillifera[18] | Fedonkin | 1980 | Proarticulata | ||||
Arumberia[19] | Glaessner et Walter | 1975 | Australia | ||||
Askinica[20] | Bekker | 1996 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | ||||
Aspidella[21] [22] | Billings | 1872 | biradial discoid fossil | Canada | |||
Astra | Grytsenko | 2016 | Ukraine | ||||
Atakia[23] | Palij | 1979 | Ukraine | ||||
Attenborites[24] | Droser et al. | 2018 | Australia | ||||
Auroralumina[25] | Dunn et al. | 2022 | United Kingdom | ||||
Ausia[26] | Hahn et Pflug | 1985 | Namibia | ||||
Avalofractus[27] | Narbonne, Laflamme, Greentree et Trusler | 2009 | Canada | ||||
Aviculaichnus[28] | Grytsenko | 2009 | junior synonym of Nenoxites | Ukraine | |||
Baikalina[29] [30] | Sokolov | 1972 | junior synonym of Ernietta | ||||
Barmia | Bekker | 1996 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | ||||
Beltanella[31] | Sprigg | 1947 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Australia | |||
Beltanelliformis[32] | Menner | 1974 | cyanobacterial colony | discoid fossil | |||
Beltanelloides | Sokolov | 1972 | nomen nudum, synonym of Beltanelliformis | ||||
Beothukis[33] | Brasier et Antcliffe | 2009 | Canada | ||||
Bernashevia | Grytsenko | 2016 | Ukraine | ||||
Bessarabia[34] | Gureev | 1988 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Ukraine | |||
Bilinichnus[35] | Fedonkin et Palij | 1979 | Trace fossil | trace fossil or pseudofossil | |||
Blackbrookia[36] | Boynton et Ford | 1995 | rejected as valid taxon, "ivesheadiomorph"-type fossil structure | ||||
Bomakellia[37] | Fedonkin | 1985 | possible junior synonym of Rangea | ||||
Bonata[38] | Fedonkin | 1980 | |||||
Brachina[39] | Wade | 1972 | Australia | ||||
Bradgatia | Boynton et Ford | 1995 | |||||
Bronicella[40] | Zaika-Novatsky | 1965 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Ukraine | |||
Buchholzbrunnichnus[41] | Germs | 1973 | Namibia | ||||
Bunyerichnus[42] | Glaessner | 1969 | pseudofossil[43] | Australia | |||
Burykhia[44] | Fedonkin, Vickers-Rich, Swalla, Trusler et Hall | 2012 | |||||
Calyptrina[45] | Sokolov | 1965 | tubular fossil | ||||
Catellichnus[46] | Bekker | 1989 | palaeopascichnid | ||||
Catenasphaerophyton[47] | Yan et al. | 1992 | palaeopascichnid | China | |||
Cephalonega | Fedonkin | 1976 | Proarticulata | ||||
Charnia[48] | Ford | 1958 | |||||
Charniodiscus | Ford | 1958 | |||||
Chondroplon[49] | Wade | 1971 | probably a junior synonym of Dickinsonia | Australia | |||
Cloudina[50] | Germs | 1972 | tubular fossil | Namibia | |||
Cocardia | Grytsenko | 2016 | Ukraine | ||||
Conomedusites | Glaessner et Wade | 1966 | Australia | ||||
Conotubus[51] | Zhang et Lin | 1986 | tubular fossil | China | |||
Coronacollina[52] | Clites, Droser et Gehling | 2012 | Sponge (?) | Australia | |||
Corumbella[53] | Hahn, Hahn, Leonardos, Pflug et Walde | 1982 | tubular fossil | Brazil | |||
Costatubus[54] | Selly et al. | 2020 | tubular fossil | United States | |||
Cyanorus[55] | Ivantsov | 2004 | |||||
Cyclomedusa | Sprigg | 1947 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Australia | |||
Dactyloichnus | Grytsenko | 2016 | Ukraine | ||||
Dickinsonia | Sprigg | 1947 | Australia | ||||
Ediacaria | Sprigg | 1947 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Australia | |||
Elainabella[56] | Stephen M. Rowland and Margarita G. Rodriguez | 2014 | Protoctista | multicellular alga | United States | ||
Elasenia[57] | Fedonkin | 1983 | Ukraine | ||||
Eoandromeda[58] | Tang, Yin, Bengtson, Liu, Wang et Gao | 2008 | Ctenophora | China | |||
Eocyathispongia[59] | Zongjun Yin et al. | 2015 | Porifera | small 3 chambered sponge | China | ||
Eoporpita | Wade | 1972 | Australia | ||||
Epibaion[60] | Ivantsov | 2002 | Trace fossil | grazing traces of Proarticulata | |||
Ernietta[61] [62] | Pflug | 1966 | Namibia | ||||
Evmiaksia | Fedonkin | 1984 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | ||||
Fedomia | Serezhnikova et Ivantsov | 2007 | Sponge (?) | ||||
Flavostratum[63] | Serezhnikova | 2013 | |||||
Fractofusus[64] [65] | Gehling et Narbonne | 2007 | Canada | ||||
Frondophyllas | Bamforth et Narbonne | 2009 | Canada | ||||
Funisia[66] | Droser et Gehling | 2008 | tubular fossil | Australia | |||
Finkoella[67] | Andrej Martyshyn | 2021 | F. ucrainica is a Pseudofossil, however F. oblonga is of microbial origin | Ukraine | |||
Ganarake[68] | Retallack | 2022 | Lichen? | First interpreted as tubestones, now thought to be earliest preserved remains of a Lichen | United States | ||
Gaojiashania[69] | Yang, Zhang et Lin | 1986 | tubular fossil | China | |||
Garania | Bekker | 1996 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | ||||
Gehlingia[70] | McMenamin | 1998 | Australia | ||||
Gibbavasis[71] | Vaziri, Majidifard et Laflamme | 2018 | Small, oval-shaped form similar to Ausia fenestrata | ||||
Gigarimaneta[72] | Taylor et al. | 2021 | Canada | ||||
Glaessnerina[73] | Germs | 1973 | junior synonym of Charnia | Australia | |||
Gureevella | Menasova | 2006 | Ukraine | ||||
Hadrynichorde | Hofmann, O'Brien, et King | 2008 | Canada | ||||
Hagenetta[74] | Hahn et Pflug | 1988 | junior synonym of Beltanelliformis | Namibia | |||
Hallidaya | Wade | 1969 | Australia | ||||
Haootia | Liu et al. | 2014 | Cnidaria | Canada | |||
Harlaniella[75] | Sokolov | 1972 | Vendotaenid | tubular fossil | Ukraine | ||
Hapsidophyllas | Bamforth et Narbonne | 2009 | Canada | ||||
Hiemalora[76] | Fedonkin | 1982 | |||||
Horodyskia[77] | Yochelson & Fedonkin | 2000 | |||||
Hylaecullulus[78] | Kenchington, Dunn & Wilby | 2018 | Multifoliate Petalonamid similar to Primocandelabrum and Bradgatia. | ||||
Ichnusa | Debrenne et Naud | 1981 | Cnidarian | Italy | |||
Ikaria | Evans et al. | 2020 | stem-bilateran | Australia | |||
Inaria | Gehling | 1987 | Australia | ||||
Inkrylovia | Fedonkin | 1979 | junior synonym of Onegia | ||||
Intrites | Fedonkin | 1980 | palaeopascichnid | ||||
Irridinitus | Fedonkin | 1983 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Ukraine | |||
Ivesheadia | Boynton et Ford | 1995 | rejected as valid taxon, "ivesheadiomorph"-type fossil structure | ||||
Ivovicia | Ivantsov | 2007 | Proarticulata | ||||
Jampolium | Gureev | 1988 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Ukraine | |||
Kaisalia | Fedonkin | 1984 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | ||||
Karakhtia[79] | Ivantsov | 2004 | Proarticulata | ||||
Keretsa[80] | Ivantsov | 2017 | |||||
Khatyspytia | Fedonkin | 1985 | |||||
Kimberella[81] [82] | Glaessner & Wade | 1966 | Mollusca (?) | Australia | |||
Kimberichnus[83] | Ivantsov | 2013 | Trace fossil | grazing traces of Kimberella | |||
Komarovia | Grytsenko | 2016 | Not to be confused with Komarovia, extant genus of flowering plant. | Ukraine | |||
Kuibisia | Hahn et Pflug | 1985 | Namibia | ||||
Kuckaraukia[84] | Razumovskiy, Ivantsov, Novikov et Korochantsev | 2015 | |||||
Lamonte [85] | Meyer, Xiao, Gill, Schiffbauer, Chen, Zhou et Yuan | 2014 | Trace fossil | China | |||
Lobodiscus[86] | Zhao et al. | 2024 | Trilobozoa | China | |||
Lomoziella | Grytsenko | 2016 | Ukraine | ||||
Lomosovis | Fedonkin | 1983 | Ukraine | ||||
Lorenzinites | Glaessner et Wade | 1966 | junior synonym of Rugoconites | Australia | |||
Lossinia | Ivantsov | 2007 | Proarticulata | ||||
Madigania[87] | Sprigg | 1949 | not Madigania (Whitley, 1945), replaced by the Spriggia | Australia | |||
Mamsetia[88] | McIlroy et al. | 2024 | Cnidaria | Canada | |||
Margaritiflabellum | Ivantsov | 2014 | |||||
Marywadea[89] | Glaessner | 1976 | Proarticulata | Australia | |||
Mawsonites | Glaessner et Wade | 1966 | Australia | ||||
Medusina | Sprigg | 1949 | not Medusina (Walcott, 1898), replaced by the Medusinites | Australia | |||
Medusinites | Glaessner et Wade | 1966 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Australia | |||
Medvezichnus | Fedonkin | 1985 | Trace fossil | unique specimen of doubtful nature | |||
Mezenia[90] [91] | Sokolov | 1976 | |||||
Mialsemia | Fedonkin | 1985 | junior synonym of Bomakellia (or Rangea) | ||||
Nadalina | Narbonne et Hofmann | 1987 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Canada | |||
Namacalathus[92] | Grotzinger, Watters, et Knoll | 2000 | Namibia | ||||
Namalia | Germs | 1968 | Namibia | ||||
Namamedusium | Zessin | 2008 | junior synonym of Beltanelliformis | Namibia | |||
Namapoikia | Wood, Grotzinger et Dickson | 2002 | Namibia | ||||
Nasepia | Germs | 1973 | Namibia | ||||
Nemiana | Palij | 1976 | junior synonym of Beltanelliformis | Ukraine | |||
Nenoxites | Fedonkin | 1976 | |||||
Nilpenia[93] | Droser et al. | 2014 | Australia | ||||
Nimbia | Fedonkin | 1980 | |||||
Noffkarkys[94] | Retallack and Broz | 2020 | Australia | ||||
Obamus | Dzaugis, Evans, Droser, Gehling et Hughes | 2018 | Australia | ||||
Olgerdina | Grytsenko | 2016 | Ukraine | ||||
Onegia | Sokolov | 1976 | |||||
Orbisiana | Sokolov | 1976 | palaeopascichnid | ||||
Orthogonium | Gürich | 1930 | Namibia | ||||
Ovatoscutum | Glaessner et Wade | 1966 | Proarticulata | Australia | |||
Palaeopascichnus[95] | Palij | 1976 | palaeopascichnid | Ukraine | |||
Palaeophragmodictya | Gehling et Rigby | 1996 | Australia | ||||
Palaeospinther[96] | Menasova | 2003 | Ukraine | ||||
Palaeoplatoda[97] | Fedonkin | 1979 | |||||
Paliella | Fedonkin | 1980 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | ||||
Pambikalbae | Jenkins et Nedin | 2007 | Australia | ||||
Papillionata | Sprigg | 1947 | Proarticulata | junior synonym of Dickinsonia | Australia | ||
Paracharnia | Sun | 1986 | China | ||||
Paramedusium | Gürich | 1933 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Namibia | |||
Paravendia | Ivantsov | 2004 | Proarticulata | ||||
Parvancorina[98] | Glaessner | 1958 | Australia | ||||
Parviscopa | Hofmann, O'Brien et King | 2008 | Canada | ||||
Pectinifrons | Bamforth, Narbonne et Anderson | 2008 | Canada | ||||
Persimedusites | Hahn et Pflug | 1980 | |||||
Petalostoma | Pflug | 1973 | rejected as valid taxon | Namibia | |||
Phyllozoon | Jenkins et Gehlig | 1978 | Proarticulata | Australia | |||
Planomedusites | Sokolov | 1972 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Ukraine | |||
Platypholinia | Fedonkin | 1985 | |||||
Plexus[99] | Joel, Droser & Gehling | 2014 | Bilateria | Although more studies are needed, it has been identified as bilaterian. | Australia | ||
Podolimirus | Fedonkin | 1983 | Proarticulata | Ukraine | |||
Podoliina | Gureev | 1988 | junior synonym of Nenoxites | Ukraine | |||
Pollukia | Gureev | 1987 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Ukraine | |||
Pomoria | Fedonkin | 1980 | junior synonym of Tribrachidium | ||||
Praecambridium | Glaessner et Wade | 1966 | Proarticulata | Australia | |||
Primocandelabrum | Hofmann, O'Brien et King | 2008 | Canada | ||||
Propalaeolina | Menasova | 2006 | tubular fossil | Ukraine | |||
Protechiurus[100] | Glaessner | 1979 | Namibia | ||||
Protodipleurosoma | Sprigg | 1949 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Australia | |||
Protoniobea | Sprigg | 1949 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Australia | |||
Pseudohiemaloraichnus | Grytsenko | 2009 | junior synonym of Nenoxites | Ukraine | |||
Pseudorhizostomites | Sprigg | 1949 | problematic biogenic structure | Australia | |||
Pseudorhopilema | Sprigg | 1949 | junior synonym of Pseudorhizostomites | Australia | |||
Pseudovendia[101] | Boynton et Ford | 1979 | rejected as valid taxon, "ivesheadiomorph"-type fossil structures | ||||
Pteridinium | Gürich | 1933 | Namibia | ||||
Quaestio[102] | Evans et al. | 2024 | Australia | ||||
Ramellina | Fedonkin | 1980 | |||||
Rangea | Gürich | 1929 | Namibia | ||||
Redkinia | Sokolov | 1977 | |||||
Rugoconites | Glaessner et Wade | 1966 | Australia | ||||
Saarina | Sokolov | 1965 | tubular fossil | ||||
Seirisphaera | Chen, Xiao et Yuan | 1996 | palaeopascichnid | Junior synonym of Orbisiana | China | ||
Sekwia | Hofmann | 1981 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Canada | |||
Sekwitubulus | Calla A. Carbone et al. | 2015 | tubular fossil | Canada | |||
Serebrina | Istchenko | 1983 | Ukraine | ||||
Shaanxilithes | Xing, Yue et Zhang | 1984 | junior synonym of Nenoxites | China | |||
Shepshedia | Boynton et Ford | 1995 | rejected as valid taxon, "ivesheadiomorph"-type fossil structure | ||||
Sinotubulites | Chen, Chen et Qian | 1981 | tubular fossil | China | |||
Skinnera | Wade | 1969 | Trilobozoa | Australia | |||
Skolithos declinatus | Fedonkin | 1985 | Trace fossil | ||||
Solza | Ivantsov | 2004 | |||||
Somatohelix[103] | Sappenfield, Droser et Gehling | 2011 | tubular fossil | Australia | |||
Spriggia[104] | Southcott | 1958 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Australia | |||
Spriggina | Glaessner | 1958 | Proarticulata | Australia | |||
Staurinidia | Fedonkin | 1985 | |||||
Stellaria | Grytsenko | 2016 | Not to be confused with Stellaria, extant genus of flowering plant. | Ukraine | |||
Streptichnus[105] | Jensen et Runnegar | 2005 | Vendotaenid[106] or Trace fossil | Namibia | |||
Studenicia[107] | Gureev | 1983 | putative Monocraterion trace fossil | Ukraine | |||
Suzmites | Fedonkin | 1981 | junior synonym of Onegia | ||||
Swartpuntia[108] | Narbonne, Saylor et Grotzinger | 1997 | Namibia | ||||
Tamga | Ivantsov | 2007 | Proarticulata | ||||
Tateana | Sprigg | 1949 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Australia | |||
Temnoxa molluscula | Ivantsov | 2004 | |||||
Thectardis[109] | Clapham, Narbonne, Gehling, Greentree et Anderson | 2004 | Sponge (?) | Canada | |||
Tirasiana | Palij | 1976 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Ukraine | |||
Trepassia | Narbonne, Laflamme, Greentree et Trusler | 2009 | Canada | ||||
Tribrachidium[110] | Glaessner | 1959 | Trilobozoa | Australia | |||
Triforillonia[111] | Gehling, Narbonne et Anderson | 2000 | Deformed aspidella | Canada | |||
Uncus[112] | Hughes, Evans, Droser | 2024 | Ecdysozoa | Possible stem nematoid | Australia | ||
Vaizitsinia | Sokolov et Fedonkin | 1981 | junior synonym of Rangea | ||||
Valdainia | Fedonkin | 1983 | Proarticulata | Ukraine | |||
Vaveliksia | Fedonkin | 1983 | Sponge (?) | Ukraine | |||
Velancorina | Pflug | 1966 | Namibia | ||||
Vendella[113] | Gureev | 1987 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters | Ukraine | |||
Vendia | Keller | 1969 | Proarticulata | ||||
Vendichnus | Fedonkin | 1979 | possible pseudofossil | ||||
Vendoconularia[114] | Ivantsov et Fedonkin | 2002 | Conulata | ||||
Vendoglossa | Seilacher | 2007 | junior synonym of Protechiurus[115] | Namibia | |||
Vendomia | Keller | 1976 | Proarticulata | junior synonym of Dickinsonia | |||
Vendomyces[116] | M. B. Burzin | 1993 | Chytridiomycetes | ||||
Vendotaenia | Gnilovskaya | 1971 | Vendotaenid | tubular fossil | |||
Ventogyrus | Ivantsov et Grazhdankin | 1997 | |||||
Veprina | Fedonkin | 1980 | |||||
Vernanimalcula | Chen J. Y | 2004 | China | ||||
Vimenites | Fedonkin | 1980 | |||||
Vinlandia[117] | Brasier, Antcliffe et Liu | 2012 | Canada | ||||
Virgatia | Grytsenko | 2016 | Ukraine | ||||
Vladimissa | Fedonkin | 1985 | |||||
Wigwamiella | Runnegar | 1991 | discoid fossil with no clear diagnostic characters. Regarded as a taphomorph of Aspidella or junior synonym for Pseudorhizostomites[118] | Australia | |||
Windermeria[119] | Narbonne | 1994 | Canada | ||||
Wutubus[120] | Chen, Zhou, Xiao, Wang, Guan, Hong et Yuan | 2014 | tubular fossil | China | |||
Yangtziramulus[121] | Shen, Xiao, Zhou et Yuan | 2009 | China | ||||
Yarnemia[122] | Nesov in Chistyakov et al. | 1984 | |||||
Yelovichnus | Fedonkin | 1985 | palaeopascichnid | junior synonym of Palaeopascichnus | |||
Yorgia[123] | Ivantsov | 1999 | Proarticulata | ||||
Yilingia[124] | Xiao et al. | 2020 | Bilateria | China | |||
Yuria | Grytsenko | 2016 | Ukraine | ||||
Zolotytsia | Fedonkin | 1981 |