Vendia

Vendia is an extinct vendiamorph from the late Ediacaran, estimated to be around 567 - 550 Ma years old, it contains two species, V. sokolovi and V. rachiata, both of which are restricted to the Ust' Pinega Formation in Northwestern Russia.

== Discovery and naming == The first fossil materials of Vendia were found in a core from a Yarensk borehole that was collected from the Ust' Pinega Formation of the Arkhangelsk Oblast, northwestern Russia in 1963, and was formally described and named in 1969 as Vendia sokolovi. A Further two species were found and named in 2001 and 2004, that being V. janae, (Redescribed as Paravendia janae in 2004) and V. rachiata.