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	Podcast:		Palaeocast
	Episode:		Episode 29A: Medusae
	Category:		Science & Medicine
	Duration:		00:26:58
	Publish Date:		2014-06-01 02:33:58
	Description:		One of the longest-ranging and outwardly primitive-looking groups of animals on the planet are the Medusozoa. In consisting of around 95% water, it may be surprising to know that there is a fossil record of jellyfish, however how does one differentiate their fossils from other abiotic sedimentary structures when both look like sub-spherical blobs? In this episode we speak to Graham Young, Curator of Geology and Paleontology at The Manitoba Museum, Canada, who addressed the identification of jellyfish fossils in a recent paper Young & Hagadorn 2010 The fossil record of cnidarian medusae.
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