page_title: Ventogyrus
hierarchical_section_title: Ventogyrus
caption_attribution_description: English: Reconstruction of the Precambrian organism Ventogyrus chistyakovi as a benthic creature. Русский: Реконструкция эдиакарского организма Ventogyrus chistyakovi, исходящая из предположения, что вентогирус был прикреплённым обитателем бентоса
context_page_description: Ventogyrus is an Ediacaran fossil found in the White Sea-Arkhangelsk region of Russia. It was originally thought to have a "boat shaped" form. However, it is now believed to have been made of three modules, all connected by a central rod. Each of the modules has a single long wall running down it. Attached to these walls are numerous transverse walls which divide the modules into chambers of decreasing size. It is 6 cm in diameter and 12 cm long. Its three-fold symmetry is also seen in other Ediacarans.
  Ventogyrus is unique among Ediacaran fossils because there are have been numerous findings preserved in three dimensions. The quality of its complex anatomical preservation is also unique among Ediacarans. This allows paleontologists to more accurately conceive of how it, and other species similar in morphology, lived in and interacted with its environment.
  Ventogyrus is also unusual amongst vendobionts in having a suspected affinity with a post-Ediacaran organism: Erytholus from the Cambrian.
context_section_description: Ventogyrus is an Ediacaran fossil found in the White Sea-Arkhangelsk region of Russia. It was originally thought to have a "boat shaped" form. However, it is now believed to have been made of three modules, all connected by a central rod.   Each of the modules has a single long wall running down it. Attached to these walls are numerous transverse walls which divide the modules into chambers of decreasing size.  It is 6 cm in diameter and 12 cm long. Its three-fold symmetry is also seen in other Ediacarans. 
  Ventogyrus is unique among Ediacaran fossils because there are have been numerous findings preserved in three dimensions. The quality of its complex anatomical preservation is also unique among Ediacarans.  This allows paleontologists to more accurately conceive of how it, and other species similar in morphology, lived in and interacted with its environment. 
  Ventogyrus is also unusual amongst vendobionts in having a suspected (if still controversial) affinity with a post-Ediacaran organism: Erytholus from the Cambrian.
caption: An artist's interpretation of Ventogyrus as an organism tethered to the seafloor.
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