Tully monster

== English == === Alternative forms === Tully Monster === Etymology === Named after amateur collector Francis Tully, who found the first of these fossils in 1955. === Noun === Tully monster (plural Tully monsters) A soft-bodied bilaterian animal, notable for its dubious taxonomic status, †Tullimonstrum gregarium, which lived in shallow tropical coastal waters of muddy estuaries during the Pennsylvanian geological period, about 300 million years ago. This animal has an odd appearance, having a mostly cigar-shaped body, with a triangular tail fin, two long stalked eyes, and a proboscis tipped with a mouth-like appendage. ==== Descendants ==== → Translingual: Tullimonstrum (partial calque) === Further reading === Tullimonstrum gregarium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies Category:Tullimonstrum on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons