30469 - Well Preserved 2.16 inch Eldonia sp. Ordovician Jellyfish Eocrinoids Ninadiscus

Ninadiscus

Morocco Date: 2006 Latitude: 27°30'N Longitude: 12°30E Mass (g): ~ 3 metric tons Pieces: Many Class: Aub (incorrect

It has glued but not restored fracture

Hemisphaerocoryphe

Submitted by K

30469 - Well Preserved 2.16 inch Eldonia sp. Ordovician Jellyfish Eocrinoids NinadiscusEldonia 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.