Sprigginidae
| Sprigginidae Temporal range: Ediacaran | |
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| A reconstruction of the type species, Spriggina floundersi | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | †Proarticulata |
| Class: | †Cephalozoa |
| Family: | †Sprigginidae Glaessner, 1958 |
| Type species | |
| †Spriggina floundersi Glaessner, 1958 | |
| Genera | |
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Sprigginidae is an extinct family of the class Cephalozoa, characterized by having a greater number of isomers than its sister taxon, Yorgiidae. They lived approximately 635 million years ago, in the Ediacaran period.