Biology:Carinachitidae

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Short description: Extinct family of cnidarians

Carinachitidae
Temporal range: Cambrian
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Cnidaria
Class: Conulata
Order: Conularina
Family: Carinachitidae
He, 1987
Genera[1]

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 at fossilworks.org (retrieved 24 May 2022)
  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. doi:10.1017/jpa.2017.10. Bibcode2018JPal...92....3H. 
  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. doi:10.1017/S0022336000033953. Bibcode1992JPal...66..384M. https://www.jstor.org/stable/1305866. 

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