Vendobionta

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Vendobionta A group of fossils of Ediacaran age that are believed to comprise a monophyletic group. Adolf Seilacher proposed in 1984 that they be ranked as a kingdom; in 1994 Leo W. Buss and Seilacher proposed they be ranked as a phylum ancestral to the Cnidaria and lacking nematocysts (cnidae).

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