Obamus

Translingual
reconstruction of Obamus coronatus

Etymology

Obama +‎ -us. From being named in honor of U.S. President Barack Obama.

Proper noun

†Obamus m

  1. A genus of uncertain taxonomic position, of Ediacaran ring-shaped animals, known only from fossils.
    • 2018 May 23, S. D. Evans et al., “You can get anything you want from Alice's Restaurant Bed: exceptional preservation and an unusual fossil assemblage from a newly excavated bed (Ediacara Member, Nilpena, South Australia)”, in Australian Journal of Earth Sciences (in English), →DOI:
      TB-ARB contains eight specimens of the rare, newly named Obamus coronatus.

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