Margaretia
| Margaretia Temporal range:
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| M. dorus fossil | |
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| Domain: | incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Margaretia Walcott, 1931 |
| Species: | †M. dorus
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| Binomial name | |
| †Margaretia dorus Walcott, 1931
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Margaretia is a frondose organism known from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and the Kinzers Formation of Pennsylvania. Its fronds reached about 10 cm in length and are peppered with a range of length-parallel oval holes. It was originally interpreted as an alcyonarian coral. It was later reclassified as a green alga closely resembling modern Caulerpa by D.F. Satterthwait in her Ph.D. thesis in 1976, a finding supported by Conway Morris and Robison in 1988. More recently, it has been treated as an organic tube, that is used as nest of hemichordate Oesia.