Dinomischus is a rare fossil animal from the Cambrian period. It reached 100 mm in height, was attached to the sea floor by a stalk, and looked loosely like a flower. The cup-shaped body at the top of the stalk probably fed by filtering the surrounding seawater, and may have created a current to facilitate this. Its mouth and anus sat next to one another.

 Dinomischus is not the only organism of its kind in the Cambrian; a similar, larger organism known as the "tulip animal" has also been recovered, but not yet described, from the Burgess shale. It has also been likened to Eldonia and Velumbrella, although unlike Dinomischus these medusoid organisms have tentacles.

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Tags: Вымершие беспозвоночные, Кембрий

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