Olivooides

Olivooides; Temporal range: Cambrian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Subphylum:	Medusozoa
Class:	Cubozoa
Genus:	†Olivooides

Olivooides is an oogenus/genus of Cambrian-aged embryo fossil found in China. It was related to the Siberian Markuelia.

Most Olivooides fossils are in a late embryonic stage, having died before hatching.^[1] Some show a hatched animal, conical with a star-shape surface, and stellae. They are pertural in the peak. There is an addition of striated tissue that indicates growth.

References

↑ Bengtson, S. (1997). "Fossilized Metazoan Embryos from the Earliest Cambrian". Science. 277 (5332): 1645–1648. doi:10.1126/science.277.5332.1645.

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[1] Bengtson, S. (1997). "Fossilized Metazoan Embryos from the Earliest Cambrian". Science. 277 (5332): 1645–1648. doi:10.1126/science.277.5332.1645.

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