Eldonia
| Eldonia Temporal range: | |
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| Eldonia ludwigii from the middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Stem group: | Ambulacraria |
| Clade: | †Cambroernida |
| Class: | †Eldonioidea |
| Family: | †Eldoniidae |
| Genus: | †Eldonia Walcott 1911 |
| Type species | |
| E. ludwigi Walcott 1911 | |
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Eldonia is an extinct soft-bodied cambroernid best known from the Fossil Ridge outcrops of the Burgess Shale, particularly in the 'Great Eldonia layer' in the Walcott Quarry. In addition to over 550 specimens collected by Walcott, 224 specimens of Eldonia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.43% of the community. Species also occur in the Chengjiang biota, Siberia, and in Upper Ordovician strata of Morocco.