Sollasina
Extinct genus of marine invertebrates
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Sollasina is an extinct genus of ophiocistioid that is known from Silurian to Devonian.[1][2][3]
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| Life restoration of Sollasina cthulhu | |
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| Family: | Sollasinidae |
| Genus: | Sollasina Fedotov, 1926 |
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Sollasina woodwardi Sollas, 1899 (type) | |
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]
