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| Medusinites asteroides from the Ediacaran Ediacara Member of the Rawnsley Quartzite in the Ediacara Hills, South Australia on display at the US. National Museum, Washington | |
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Medusinites is a genus of disc shaped fossilised organisms associated with the Ediacaran biota. They have been found in rocks dated to be 580 to 541 million years old.[1]