Carinachitidae
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| Carinachitidae Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | †Conulata |
| Order: | †Conularina |
| Family: | †Carinachitidae He, 1987 |
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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
[edit]- ^ "Carinachitidae". Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 24 May 2022.
- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.