Marywadea is an extinct proarticulate organism from the late Ediacaran of Australia. Originally described under Spriggina, it is a monotypic genus, containing only Marywadea ovata.
Marywadea is an extinct proarticulate organism from the late Ediacaran of Australia. Originally described under Spriggina, it is a monotypic genus, containing only Marywadea ovata.
== Discovery and naming == The holotype fossil of Marywadea was found from the Ediacara Member of the Rawnsley Quartzite, in Nilpena Ediacara National Park, Flinders Ranges of South Australia in 1966, and was originally tentatively assigned under the genus Spriggina. In 1976, it would be redescribed and assigned under the new genus of Marywadea.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).