Cornulitida

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Cornulitida
Temporal range: Mid Ordovician–Late Carboniferous[1]
Cornulitid on a brachiopod valve (Upper Ordovician, SE Indiana)
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Class: †Tentaculita
Order: †Cornulitida
Boucek, 1964
Genera

Cornulitida is an extinct order of encrusting animals from class Tentaculita, which were common around the globe in the Ordovician to Devonian oceans, and survived until the Carboniferous.[1][2][3] Organisms that may be the oldest cornulitids have been found in Cambrian sediments of Jordan.[4]

Cornulitids had shells, and were subject to predation by boring and other means from the Ordovician onwards. Many survived attacks by predators.

tabulates.[5][6][7]

Their affinity is unknown; they have been placed in many phyla, and have been considered worms, corals, molluscs and more.

tentaculitids.[1]

Gallery

References

  1. ^
    doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2008.12.004
    . Retrieved 2014-06-11.
  2. doi:10.4267/2042/51214. Archived
    from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  3. doi:10.4267/2042/53034. Archived from the original
    on 2013-12-27.
  4. ^ Olaf Elicki (January 2011). "First skeletal microfauna from the Cambrian Series 3 of the Jordan Rift Valley (Middle East)". Memoirs of the Association of Australasian Palaeontologists. 42 (42): 153-173.
  5. S2CID 131651974. Archived
    from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  6. doi:10.1127/0077-7749/2010/0048. Archived
    from the original on 2023-11-06. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
  7. doi:10.1016/j.palaeo.2012.01.028. Archived
    from the original on 2023-12-17. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Cornulitida&oldid=1201373636"