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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sallent, post: 3110749, member: 76194&quot;]And just for the fun of it, here are my Cambrian Era cystoid</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]789303[/ATTACH]</p><p>Species: Gogia Palmeri</p><p>Family: Cystoid (Extinct)</p><p>Middle Cambrian</p><p>505,000,000 years old</p><p><br /></p><p>They are probably most closely related to crinoids. Here is a crinoid</p><p><br /></p><p>[ATTACH=full]789308[/ATTACH]</p><p><br /></p><p>Like the crinoid above, the cystoid was an animal, not a plant, though people often confuse them for plants. One sure way to tell the Cystoid were animals is that some of the better preserved fossils show a mouth and an anus...right next to each other. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie9" alt=":eek:" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />&nbsp; Talk about a raw evolutionary deal, excreting right next to where the food went in. If there is a creator, he surely didn&#039;t do them any favors, so perhaps it&#039;s all for the better that they are extinct.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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