Funisia
| Funisia Temporal range: Ediacaran,
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| Reconstruction of Funisia dorothea, incl. 'damaged' specimen. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera (?) |
| Family: | †Olgunidae |
| Genus: | †Funisia Droser & Gehling, 2008 |
| Species: | †F. dorothea
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| Binomial name | |
| †Funisia dorothea Droser & Gehling, 2008
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Funisia is a genus of extinct, colonial sponge-like organisms from the late Ediacaran of South Australia. It is the most common genus within the fossils beds it is known from, and may have partially driven the paleoenvironment and paleoecology of the areas in which it was found by stopping other organisms from taking hold, or providing nutrients upon a mass death. It is a monotypic genus, containing only Funisia dorothea.