Description

Albumares brunsae
Ediacaran
Late Precambrian (Vendian)
Verkhovka Formation
Syuzma River, Russia.

Soft-bodied. Ediacaran. Lagerstatten.

Very rare 12mm early echinoderm-like animal on 100mm matrix. The strange triradial symmetry suggests it is related to related to Tribrachidium and other trilobozoans.

Albumares is known officially only from sites on the Syuzma River, Russia near the White Sea. “Albumares” is from the Latin for “White Sea.”

This is a fine example of a very rare animal from Ediacaran time.