Sollasina
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Genus: | Sollasina Fedotov, 1926
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Sollasina woodwardi Sollas, 1899 (type) |
Sollasina is an extinct genus of ophiocistioid that is known from Silurian to Devonian.[1][2][3]
Taxonomy
Sollasina cthulhu from the Coalbrookdale Formation of the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte in England was named after H. P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos.[1][4] The fossil was 3 cm wide, and the animal was likely the size of a large spider, with 45 tentacle-like tube feet.[5][6]
References
- ^ a b c Rahman, Imran A.; Thompson, Jeffrey R.; Briggs, Derek E. G.; Siveter, David J.; Siveter, Derek J.; Sutton, Mark D. (2019). "A new ophiocistioid with soft-tissue preservation from the Silurian Herefordshire Lagerstätte, and the evolution of the holothurian body plan". Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 286 (1900): 20182792. doi:10.1098/rspb.2018.2792. PMC 6501687. PMID 30966985.
- ^ Shelton, Jim (11 April 2019). "Researchers Discover Fossils of Cthulhu-Like Creature". Scitech Daily. Retrieved 13 April 2019.
- ^ "Fossilworks: Sollasina". www.fossilworks.org. Retrieved 17 June 2022.
- ^ Kristoffersen, Matt (16 April 2019). "Yale, UK scientists name ancient species after Cthulhu". Yale News. New Haven, Connecticut.
- ^ "The return of Cthulhu — the small sea critter". 9 April 2019.
- ^ "Tentacled 'Cthulhu' fossil reconstruction reveals monstrous relative of modern sea cucumbers".