Biology:Cornuta

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Short description: Extinct order of marine invertebrates

Cornuta
Temporal range: Middle Cambrian – Ordovician [verification needed]
Corthurnocystis.jpg
Reconstruction of the cornute Corthurnocystis
Cothurnocystis elizae CRF.jpg
Fossil of Cothurnocystis elizae
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Stylophora
Order: Cornuta
Jaekel, 1901
Families

Cornuta is an extinct order of echinoderms. Along with the mitrates, they form the Stylophora.

Their first (probable) representative is Ponticulocarpus from the Spence Shale (mid Cambrian);[1], Ordovician examples also exist.

References

  • Mus, Monica Martí (April 2002). "The Ordovician cornute Flabellicystis rushtoni n. gen. n. sp. (Stylophora, Echinodermata) and its phylogenetic position within the group Cornuta". Paläontologische Zeitschrift 76 (1): 99–116. doi:10.1007/BF02988189. 

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q21447200 entry