Pseudooides are Cnidarians

[Oxytropidoceras]

Fossil orphans reunited with their parents after half a

billion years, University of Bristol, December 12, 2017

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171213095621.htm

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-fossil-orphans-reunited-parents-billion.html

 

Duan, B., , X.P., Porras, L., Vargas, K., Cunningham,

J.A. and Donoghue, P.C., 2017, December. The early

Cambrian fossil embryo Pseudooides is a direct-

developing cnidarian, not an early ecdysozoan. In

Proc. R. Soc. B (Vol. 284, No. 1869, p. 20172188).

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/284/1869/20172188

 

Yours,

Paul H.

[BobWill]

Another name bites the dust! When I saw the image of the adult i was reminded of the four-sided Conulariids we find at Jacksboro Texas. Then I read that these were the embryos of Hexaconularia. Even though Pseuooides was in the wrong phylum for a time they were named first so Hexaconularia gets replaced.