Margaretia
id:
margaretia-167-18233127
title:
Margaretia
text:
Margaretia is a frondose organism known from the middle Cambrian Burgess shale and the Kinzers Formation of Pennsylvania. Its fronds reached about 10 cm in length and are peppered with a range of length-parallel oval holes. It was originally interpreted as an alcyonarian coral. It was later reclassified as a green alga closely resembling modern Caulerpa by D.F. Satterthwait in her Ph.D. thesis in 1976, a finding supported by Conway Morris and Robison in 1988. More recently, it has been treated a
brand slug:
wiki
category slug:
encyclopedia
description:
Extinct order of Cambrian organisms
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaretia
date created:
2008-09-06T20:21:53Z
date modified:
2024-08-30T21:25:09Z
main entity:
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image:
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fields total:
13
integrity:
16