A jellyfish fossil was found from over half a billion years ago in a national park in Canada. See what the free-swimming predatory jellyfish fossil looks like.
are thought to be one of the earliest animal groups to have evolved, they have been remarkably hard to pin down in the Cambrian fossil record," he said.These specific jellyfish were named after their similar appearance to Medusa — belonging to a group of medusozoan animal, as SWNS reported.Today, jellyfish in this ancestor family include box jellyfish, hydroids, stalked jellyfish and more.These fossils proved to the team that these jellyfish were more complex than some originally thought.
A fossil from the oldest-ever species of jellyfish to have roamed the oceans of planet Earth has been discovered — said to be 505 million years old. Dr. Jean-Bernard Caron, co-author of the study, told SWNS that these jellyfish were efficient predators. "Burgessomedusa adds the complexity of Cambrian foodwebs, and like Anomalocaris, which lived in the same environment, these jellyfish were efficient swimming predators," he said. "This adds yet another remarkable lineage of animals that the Burgess Shale has preserved chronicling the evolution of life on Earth."
The Burgessomedusa phasmiformis fossils can be seen in the Burgess Shale section of the Willner Madge Gallery at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, Canada.Fun stories about food, relationships, the great outdoors and more.
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