Echinosphaerites
| Echinosphaerites Temporal range: Early - Middle Ordovician | |
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| Echinosphaerites aurantium from the Middle Ordovician of Estonia. | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Subphylum: | Crinozoa |
| Class: | Rhombifera |
| Genus: | Echinosphaerites |
Echinosphaerites is a genus of rhombiferan echinoderm (a cystoid) that lived in the Early and Middle Ordovician of North America and Europe (Bockelie, 1981).
References
- Bockelie, J.F., 1981. Functional morphology and evolution of the cystoid Echinosphaerites. Lethaia 14: 189-202.
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