How Synthetic is Vendobionta Morphology? A Geometric Morphometric Study of Pteridinium from the Latest Neoproterozoic

摘要

INTRODUCTION Ediacaran fossils allow us the opportunity to investigate how the earliest preserved metazoans lived, interacted, and diversified. Such interpretations are complex as these organisms are often morphologically enigmatic and defy ready categorization within modern taxonomic schemes. Therefore, researchers have an incomplete view of their biological affinities.