Cornuta
Extinct order of marine invertebrates / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article is about the prehistoric echinoderm taxon. For the prehistoric fish taxon, see Cornuata.
Cornuta is an extinct order of echinoderms. Along with the mitrates, they form the Stylophora.
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Reconstruction of the cornute Cothurnocystis | |
Fossil of Cothurnocystis elizae | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Echinodermata |
Class: | †Stylophora |
Order: | †Cornuta Jaekel, 1901 |
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Their first (probable) representative is Ponticulocarpus from the Spence Shale (mid Cambrian);,[1] Ordovician examples also exist.