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Cloudinids (Cloudinia) are an extinct animal phylum that formed small tubelike or conical fossils consisting of "cup-in-cup" segments of calcareous material. What the animal itself looked like is still unknown.

Cloudinia are characteristic of the so-called 'Small Shelly Fauna' in the final Neoproterozoic period, called the Tommotian, and disappeared in the extinction event that marks the Cambrian boundary, most recently dated 542mya. The extinctions (which didn't affect microbes, however) are connected with the worldwide glaciation often referred to as 'Snowball Earth' and set the stage for the Cambrian explosion of life-forms.

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	'''Cloudinids''' ('''''Cloudinia''''') are an extinct [[animal]] phylum that formed small ~~[[Late Proterozoic]]~~ tubelike or conical fossils consisting of "cup-in-cup" segments of calcareous material.		'''Cloudinids''' ('''''Cloudinia''''') are an extinct [[animal]] phylum that formed small tubelike or conical fossils consisting of "cup-in-cup" segments of calcareous material. What the animal itself looked like is still unknown.

			''Cloudinia'' are characteristic of the so-called '[[Small Shelly Fauna]]' in the final [[Neoproterozoic]] period, called the [[Tommotian]], and disappeared in the extinction event that marks the Cambrian boundary, most recently dated 542mya. The extinctions (which didn't affect microbes, however) are connected with the worldwide glaciation often referred to as '[[Snowball Earth]]' and set the stage for the [[Cambrian Explosion\|Cambrian explosion]] of life-forms.