Obamus

Translingual edit

reconstruction of Obamus coronatus

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

†Obamus m

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.