Echinosphaerites

Echinosphaerites
Temporal range: Early - Middle Ordovician
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 cystoid echinoderms that lived in the Early to 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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