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Cothurnocystis
Extinct genus of marine invertebrates / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cothurnocystis is a genus of small enigmatic echinoderms that lived during the Ordovician. Individual animals had a flat boot-shaped body and a thin rod-shaped appendage that may be a stem, or analogous to a foot or a tail. Fossils of Cothurnocystis species have been found in Nevada, Scotland, Czech Republic, France and Morocco.
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Cothurnocystis elizae | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Echinodermata |
Class: | †Stylophora |
Order: | †Cornuta |
Family: | †Cothurnocystidae |
Subfamily: | †Cothurnocystinae |
Genus: | †Cothurnocystis Bather, 1913 |
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