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Margaretia dorus

Margaretia dorus
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Anthozoa
Subclass:
Order: Alcyonacea
Genus: Margaretia
Species: M. dorus
Binomial name
Margaretia dorus

The Burgess shale organism Margaretia dorus resembles an , according to C.D. Walcott (1931). It was later reclassified as a green alga closely resembling modern Caulerpa by D.F. Satterthwait in her Ph.D. thesis in 1976 and confirmed by Conway Morris and Robison in 1988.



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