Olivooides
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| Genus: | †Olivooides
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Olivooides is an oogenus/genus of Cambrian-aged embryo fossil found in China. It was related to the Siberian Markuelia.
Most Olivooides fossils are in a late embryonic stage, having died before hatching.[1] Some show a hatched animal, conical with a star-shape surface, and stellae. They are pertural in the peak. There is an addition of striated tissue that indicates growth.
References
- ↑ Bengtson, S.. Fossilized Metazoan Embryos from the Earliest Cambrian. Science 277 (5332) (1997). p. 1645–1648. doi:10.1126/science.277.5332.1645.