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 Cothurnocystis species have been found in Nevada, Scotland, Czech Republic, France and Morocco.

Cothurnocystis
Temporal range:
Cothurnocystis elizae
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: Stylophora
Order: Cornuta
Family: Cothurnocystidae
Subfamily: Cothurnocystinae
Genus: Cothurnocystis
Bather, 1913
Species
  • C. americana Ubachs, 1963
  • C. bifida
  • C. curvata
  • C. elizae Bather, 1913
  • C. fellinensis Ubachs, 1969
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