Cycliomedusa

Cycliomedusa
Temporal range: Ediacaran
Reconstruction of Cycliomedusa jiangchuanensis
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Subkingdom: Eumetazoa
Genus: Cycliomedusa
Zhao et al., 2025
Species:
C. jiangchuanensis
Binomial name
Cycliomedusa jiangchuanensis
Zhao et al., 2025

Cycliomedusa is an extinct genus of enigamtic eumetazoan from the late Ediacaran, and is estimated to be about 550 - 545 million years old. It was first formally described in 2025 based on multiple specimens from the Dengying Formation of South China. Cycliomedusa jiangchuanensis is the only species within the genus.