Hiemalora instance of fossil taxon
Hiemalora is a fossil of the Ediacaran biota, reaching around 3 cm in diameter, which superficially resembles a sea anemone.  The genus has a sack-like body with faint radiating lines originally interpreted as tentacles, but discovery of a frond-like structure seemingly attached to some Heimalora has added weight to a competing interpretation: that it represents the holdfast of a larger organism.In 2020, a new study was published that described nine different from the Indreelva member, Digermulen Peninsula, Finnmark (Arctic Norway). The specimens described in the paper have high degrees of variation between morphologies and within the specimens that are though to be of the same species. Some of the representative fossils from that paper either show multiple Aspidella-like structures on the same specimen, or a Primocandelabrum-like cone visible in one of the fossils. All of the examples of fossils in the publication were determined to most likely represent the species Hiemalora stellaris, however, one of the more poorly preserved specimens (D18-50) is thought to have been representative of Hiemalora pleiomorphus, although the latter of the species represented by the specimens does not show parallel ridges running along the poorly preserved central disc. A representative of H, stellaris might have represented a holdfast with a Primocandelabrum frond attached to it, which may further support the theory of Hiemalora being a holdfast for Primocandelabrum.This interpretation would stand against its original classification in the medusoid Cnidaria; it would also consign a once-popular hypothesis placing Hiemalora in the chondrophores, on the basis of its tentacle structure, to the dustbin.  Studies testing the feasibility of hypothesis investigated the possibilities that such fragile tentacles could be preserved, and concluded that it would be very improbable — especially as many Hiemalora bearing beds also contain such fossils as Cyclomedusa, but do not preserve the tentacles on these organisms.Hiemalora has been identified in a wide range of facies and locations globally.
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