Diploporita
| Diploporita Temporal range:
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Informal group: | †Cystoidea |
| Informal group: | †Diploporita Müller, 1854 |
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Diploporita is an extinct group of blastozoans that ranged from the Ordovician to the Devonian. These echinoderms are identified by a specialized respiratory structure, called diplopores. Diplopores are a double pore system that sit within a depression on a single thecal (body) plate; each plate can contain numerous diplopore pairs.