Cothurnocystidae is an extinct family of
stylophoran
echinoderm
An echinoderm () is any animal of the phylum Echinodermata (), which includes starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars and sea cucumbers, as well as the sessile sea lilies or "stone lilies". While bilaterally symmetrical as ...
s in the order
Cornuta.
It contains four subfamilies and six genera not assigned to subfamilies:
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Chauvelicystinae
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Ampelocarpus''
** ''
Chauvelicystis''
** ''
Flabellicarpus''
** ''
Lyricocarpus''
** ''
Milonicystis''
** ''
Prochauvelicystis''
** ''
Proscotiaecystis''
** ''
Sokkaejaecystis''
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Cothurnocystinae
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Cothurnocystis
''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 ''Cothu ...
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Phyllocystinae
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Scotiaecystinae
** ''
Bohemiaecystis''
** ''
Scotiaecystis''
** ''
Thoralicystis''
* Unassigned
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Acuticarpus''
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Archaeocothurnus''
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Cardiocystella''
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Nevadaecystis''
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Ponticulocarpus''
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Trigonocarpus''
References
External links
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Cothurnocystidae at fossilworks.org(retrieved 16 April 2016)
Homalozoa
Prehistoric echinoderm families
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