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- Cloudinid abstract "The Cloudinids, an early metazoan family containing the genus Cloudina, lived in the late Ediacaran period and became extinct at the base of the Cambrian. They formed millimetre-scale conical fossils consisting of calcareous cones nested within one another; the appearance of the organism itself remains unknown. The name Cloudina honors the 20th-century geologist and paleontologist Preston Cloud.Cloudinids had a wide geographic range, reflected in the present distribution of localities in which their fossils are found, and are an abundant component of some deposits. They never appear in the same layers as soft-bodied Ediacaran biota, but the fact that some sequences contain Cloudinids and Ediacaran biota in alternating layers suggests that these groups had different environmental preferences. It has been suggested that Cloudinids lived embedded in microbial mats, growing new cones to avoid being buried by silt. However no specimens have been found embedded in mats, and their mode of life is still an unresolved question.The classification of the Cloudinids has proved difficult: they were initially regarded as polychaete worms, and then as coral-like cnidarians on the basis of what look like buds on some specimens. Current scientific opinion is divided between classifying them as polychaetes and regarding it as unsafe to classify them as members of any broader grouping.Cloudinids are important in the history of animal evolution for two reasons. They are among the earliest and most abundant of the small shelly fossils with mineralized skeletons, and therefore feature in the debate about why such skeletons first appeared in the Late Ediacaran. The most widely-supported answer is that their shells are a defense against predators, as some Cloudina specimens from China bear the marks of multiple attacks, which suggests they survived at least a few of them. The holes made by predators are approximately proportional to the size of the Cloudina specimens, and Sinotubulites fossils, which are often found in the same beds, have so far shown no such holes. These two points suggest that predators attacked in a selective manner, and the evolutionary arms race which this indicates is commonly cited as a cause of the Cambrian explosion of animal diversity and complexity.".
- Cloudinid kingdom Animal.
- Cloudinid phylum Incertae_sedis.
- Cloudinid synonym "* Aulophycus lucianoi (Beurlen & Sommer 1957) = C. waldei (Hahn & Pflug, 1985) = C. lucianoi (Zaine & Fairchild, 1985)".
- Cloudinid thumbnail Cloudina.svg?width=300.
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- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Adolf_Seilacher.
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- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Antarctica.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Argentina.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Biodiversity.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Brazil.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Budding.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Calcareous.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Calcite.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Calcium_carbonate.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink California.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Cambrian.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Cambrian_explosion.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Canada.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Category:Ediacaran_biota.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Category:Prehistoric_animals.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink China.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Cloudina.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Cloudinid.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Cnidaria.
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- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Crown_group.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Dengying_Formation.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Ediacara_biota.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Ediacaran.
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- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Evolutionary_arms_race.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Family_(biology).
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Fauna.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Fossil.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Genus.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Incertae_sedis.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Infauna.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Isotope_analysis.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Kingdom_(biology).
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink List_of_Ediacaran_genera.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Metazoan.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Mexico.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Microbial_mat.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Mineralization_(biology).
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Nama_Group.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Namacalathus.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Namapoikia.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Namibia.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Nevada.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Oman.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Period_(geology).
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Platysolenites.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Polychaete.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Predation.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Predator.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Preston_Cloud.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Saarina.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Serpulid.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Serpulidae.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Siberia.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Sinotubulites.
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- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Small_shelly_fauna.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Small_shelly_fossils.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Somatohelix.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Spain.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Speciation.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Species.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Spirosolenites.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Stem_group.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Stromatolite.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Stromatolites.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Taxonomy_(biology).
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink Uruguay.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLink File:Cloudina_internal_01.png.
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLinkText "Cloudina".
- Cloudinid wikiPageWikiLinkText "Cloudinid".
- Cloudinid familia "Cloudinidae".
- Cloudinid familiaAuthority "Hahn and Pflug, 1985".
- Cloudinid fossilRange Ediacaran.
- Cloudinid genus "Cloudina".
- Cloudinid genusAuthority "Germs, 1972".
- Cloudinid hasPhotoCollection Cloudinid.
- Cloudinid imageWidth "100".
- Cloudinid name "Cloudina".
- Cloudinid phylum "Incertae sedis".
- Cloudinid regnum "Animalia".
- Cloudinid subdivision "* C. hartmannae (Germs 1972) * C. riemkeae (Germs 1972) * C. lucianoi ( Zaine & Fairchild, 1985) * C. sinensis (Zhang, Li et Dung, 1992) * C. carinata (Cortijo, Musa, Jensena et Palacios, 2009)".
- Cloudinid subdivisionRanks Species.
- Cloudinid synonyms "* Aulophycus lucianoi (Beurlen & Sommer 1957) = C. waldei (Hahn & Pflug, 1985) = C. lucianoi (Zaine & Fairchild, 1985)".
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