Eldonia eumorpha
480,00 €
System: Cambrian.
Origin: Kunming, Yunnan province, China.Â
Origin: Kunming, Yunnan province, China.Â
Measurements: 11.8cm x 10.2cm
Eldonia It is an extinct soft-bodied chamboerid. The Cambroernida are a clade of Paleozoic animals with coiled bodies and filamentous tentacles. They include several genera from the early to middle Paleozoic (Cambrian to Devonian), considered "alien" or "orphan" taxa, meaning that their affinities with other animals, living or extinct, have long been uncertain. Cambroernids encompass three particular types of enigmatic animals that first appeared in the Cambrian: Herpetogaster, Phlogites and Eldonioidea. They share common characteristics, such as at least a couple of forked oral tentacles or divided, a big stomach and a intestine narrower, enclosed in a sack rolled clockwise.
Extinct soft-bodied eldonia  It is shaped like a round, medusoid disk (which originally gave rise to suggestions of an affinity with jellyfish) with a C-shaped intestinal trail.Â
Extinct soft-bodied eldonia  It is shaped like a round, medusoid disk (which originally gave rise to suggestions of an affinity with jellyfish) with a C-shaped intestinal trail.Â
Eldonids are pelagic organisms with a medusoid appearance, for this reason we have included them in the phylum cnidarians.
All biologists believe that Cambrian animals were the ancestors of all living beings today. The first living beings on Earth were very simple and small single-celled prokaryotic organisms, like bacteria. They emerged about 3,800 to 3,500 million years ago. It was almost 600 million years ago when animal evolution experienced an unprecedented burst of creativity: the event known as the Cambrian Explosion. This explosion was characterized by the sudden appearance, over a period of about 40 million years, of complex macroscopic multicellular organisms during the Early Cambrian (541-518 m.y.).
All biologists believe that Cambrian animals were the ancestors of all living beings today. The first living beings on Earth were very simple and small single-celled prokaryotic organisms, like bacteria. They emerged about 3,800 to 3,500 million years ago. It was almost 600 million years ago when animal evolution experienced an unprecedented burst of creativity: the event known as the Cambrian Explosion. This explosion was characterized by the sudden appearance, over a period of about 40 million years, of complex macroscopic multicellular organisms during the Early Cambrian (541-518 m.y.).
The Early Cambrian fossil fauna of Chengjiang, discovered in 1984 about 52 km southeast of Kunming in southern China, is matched only by the Middle Cambrian fauna of the Burgess Shale (British Columbia) in its excellent state of preservation.
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