30466 - Top Rare 6.69 inch Eldonia sp. Ordovician Jellyfish Akantharges Northwest Africa 11667

Northwest Africa 11667

†Homalopteon

This is an impressive and unusual piece

10 Inch = 2

30466 - Top Rare 6.69 inch Eldonia sp. Ordovician Jellyfish Akantharges Northwest Africa 11667Eldonia is an extinct soft bodied cambroernid animal of unknown affinity, best known from the Fossil Ridge outcrops of the Burgess Shale, particularly in the 'Great Eldonia layer' in the Walcott Quarry. In addition to the 550 collected by Walcott, 224 specimens of Eldonia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0. 43% of the community. Species also occur in the Chengjiang biota,and in Upper Ordovician strata of Morocco.