Hiemalora
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. 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. "Heimalora" has been identified in a wide range of facies and locations globally. Etymology. The genus was originally named "Pinegia", but was renamed two years later when it was realised that a genus of Permian insect already bore the name.