Carinachitidae
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Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Conulata
Order: Conularina
Family: Carinachitidae
He, 1987
Genera[1]
  • Carinachites Qian, 1977
  • Emeiconularia Qian et al., 1997

Carinachitidae is a family of small shelly fossils identified as cnidarian sclerites based on articulated specimens from the Kuanchuanpu formation.[2]

They grade in morphology to conulariids.[3]

References

  1. "Carinachitidae". Fossilworks. Retrieved 24 May 2022 from the Paleobiology Database.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link)
  2. Han, Jian; Li, Guoxiang; Wang, Xing; Yang, Xiaoguang; Guo, Junfeng; Sasaki, Osamu; Komiya, Tsuyoshi (2018). "Olivooides-like tube aperture in early Cambrian carinachitids (Medusozoa, Cnidaria)". Journal of Paleontology. 92 (1): 3–13. Bibcode:2018JPal...92....3H. doi:10.1017/jpa.2017.10. S2CID 134119760.
  3. Morris, Simon Conway; Menge, Chen (1992). "Carinachitids, Hexangulaconulariids, and Punctatus: Problematic Metazoans from the Early Cambrian of South China". Journal of Paleontology. 66 (3): 384–406. Bibcode:1992JPal...66..384M. doi:10.1017/S0022336000033953. JSTOR 1305866. S2CID 132016444.
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