Biology:Sollasina
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Sollasina is an extinct genus of ophiocistioid that is known from Silurian to Devonian.[1][2][3]
Taxonomy
Sollasina cthulhu from the Coalbrookdale Formation of the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte in England was named after H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.[1][4] The fossil was 3 cm wide, and the animal was likely the size of a large spider, with 45 tentacle-like tube feet.[5][6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Rahman, Imran A.; Thompson, Jeffrey R.; Briggs, Derek E. G.; Siveter, David J.; Siveter, Derek J.; Sutton, Mark D. (2019). "A new ophiocistioid with soft-tissue preservation from the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte, and the evolution of the holothurian body plan". Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286 (1900). doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.2792. PMID 30966985.
- ↑ Shelton, Jim (2019-04-11). "Researchers Discover Fossils of Cthulhu-Like Creature". https://scitechdaily.com/researchers-discover-fossils-of-cthulhu-like-creature/.
- ↑ "Fossilworks: Sollasina". https://paleobiodb.org/classic/checkTaxonInfo?taxon_no=31225.
- ↑ Kristoffersen, Matt (16 April 2019). "Yale, UK scientists name ancient species after Cthulhu". Yale News (New Haven, Connecticut). https://yaledailynews.com/blog/2019/04/16/yale-uk-scientists-name-ancient-species-after-cthulhu/.
- ↑ "The return of Cthulhu — the small sea critter". 9 April 2019. https://news.yale.edu/2019/04/09/return-cthulhu-small-sea-critter.
- ↑ "Tentacled 'Cthulhu' fossil reconstruction reveals monstrous relative of modern sea cucumbers". https://oumnh.ox.ac.uk/tentacled-cthulhu-fossil-reconstruction-reveals-monstrous-relative-modern-sea-cucumbers.
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