Attenborites janeae is a species of Ediacaran organism from South Australia first described by a team led by Palaeontologist Mary L. Droser in 2018.

A team of palaeontologists from the University of California led by Mary L. Droser excavated the fossiliferous bed that Attenborites was described from in 2018.

The bed contained a number of unique taxa that also appear in the White Sea of Russia, such as Andiva and Parvancorina.

The fact that the bed contains a number of unique taxa also includes the opportunity to study another abundant fossil, Andiva, in the way that Palaeontologists can examine its growth and life from a single community of Ediacarans.

[2] In real life, Attenborites would have looked much smoother than its fossils suggest, and would look like ellipsoidal forms possessing a relatively smooth surface, with the ridges found in fossil specimens being concluded that they were actually the result of taphonomic features being formed during deflation rather than them being actual anatomical and morphological features.