Ausia fenestrata

Ausia fenestrata is an Ediacaran fossil represented by only one specimen 5 cm long from the Nama Group, a Vendian to Cambrian group of stratigraphic sequences deposited in the Nama foreland basin in central and southern Namibia. It has similarity to Burykhia from Ediacaran (Vendian) siliciclastic sediments exposed on the Syuzma River of Arkhangelsk Oblast, northwest Russia. This fossil is of the form of an elongate bag-like sandstone cast tapering to a cone on one end. The surface of the fossil is covered with oval depressions ("windows") regularly spaced over the surface in the manner of concentric/parallel rows. The taxonomic identity of Ausia is unresolved.

Ausia fenestrata

Uncredited · via Wikipedia/Commons. May be a photograph of a specimen, or an artist’s reconstruction — an interpretation of a skeleton, since colour and soft tissue are almost never preserved.

On record

Recorded, not inferred
Sits inside
AusiaPBDB
Diet
osmotroph, suspension feederPBDB, for Ausia
Life habit
low-level epifaunalPBDB, for Ausia
Motility
stationaryPBDB, for Ausia
Environment
marinePBDB, for Ausia

Time the record covers

At most 97 million years on record.

The one occurrence read is dated to somewhere between 635 Mya and 538.8 Mya, which is a dating window rather than a span.

Cambrian — about 0 of 1 occurrence637–634 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences634–630 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences630–627 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences627–624 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences624–620 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences620–617 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences617–614 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences614–610 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences610–607 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences607–604 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences604–600 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences600–597 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences597–594 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences594–590 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences590–587 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences587–584 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences584–580 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences580–577 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences577–574 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences574–570 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences570–567 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences567–564 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences564–560 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences560–557 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences557–554 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences554–550 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences550–547 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences547–544 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences544–540 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences540–537 Mya — about 0.0 occurrences637 Mya537 Mya

1 occurrence of Ausia fenestrata on record. Bar height is expected occurrences, not a count: each fossil is spread across the span it is dated to, so a tall narrow bar means tight dating and a low wide one means loose.

When

1 occurrences

These are dates about fossils, not the animal: the record can only begin after it arose and end before it died out, so either end may reach further. Shares are expected occurrences: a fossil dated to a span is counted partly in each period it straddles. More on what this infers.

Found in

1 formation

Verkhovka — 64.38°N, 40.65°E

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The named rock units Ausia fenestrata has been recovered from, largest first. Drawn where the rock is now, not where it formed.

Found in the same rock

5 taxa

The Paleobiology Database records 1 site for Ausia fenestrata, and this reads all of them. The number is how many of those sites it was catalogued from too.

This is not a list of everything alive at the time. It is only what has come out of the same ground as this animal and been written down.

Entered from

1 reference

Each of the 1 occurrence read was entered from one of these publications, ordered by how many each accounts for. This is not a search for papers mentioning the name. Each entry links to the Paleobiology Database's own record for the work.

Media and terms

Media content1

Picture of Ausia fenestrata

Credit
nobody named on the record
Licence
not stated by the source
Commercial use
cannot be read from the licence given — check the record

No 3D scan of Ausia fenestrata was found in Sketchfab.

Smithsonian Open Access and MorphoSource were not reached for this taxon, so this list is what the others held rather than everything there is.

The description on this site

Licence
CC BY-SA 4.0

This is what the site found, which is not the same as what exists.

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What may have been alongside itAusia through time

Occurrence data from the Paleobiology Database, CC BY 4.0. Hahn and Pflug 1985