Namacalathus is a problematic metazoan fossil occurring in the latest Ediacaran. The first, and only described species, N. hermanastes, was first described in 2000 from the Nama Group of central and southern Namibia.
Namacalathus is a problematic metazoan fossil occurring in the latest Ediacaran. The first, and only described species, N. hermanastes, was first described in 2000 from the Nama Group of central and southern Namibia.
== Discovery and naming == Fossils of Namacalathus were first discovered in Namibia and were previously described as specimens of Cloudina in 1990, and were named as a new genus in 2000. Fossils of Namacalathus have also since been found in Canada, Oman, Paraguay, and Russia.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).