Mitrate

Mitrate
Temporal range:
Rhenocystis latipedunculata ventral/flat (B1) and dorsal/convex (B2) surfaces
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Echinodermata
Class: †Stylophora
Order: †Mitrata
Jaekel, 1918
Taxa

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Mitrates are an extinct group of echinoderms, which are grouped with the cornutes and the basal Ceratocystis to form the Stylophora. Mitrates were central to the now-disproven calcichordate hypothesis of chordate origins, but are now seen as either pre-radial-symmetry stem-group echinoderms, or as a derived group either within the blastozoans or near to the origin of crinoids.

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