Cincta
Extinct class of marine invertebrates / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Cincta is an extinct class of echinoderms that lived only in the Middle Cambrian epoch.[1] Homostelea is a junior synonym.[2] The classification of cinctans is controversial, but they are probably part of the echinoderm stem group.[1][3]
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Cincta | |
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Trochocystites bohemicus from the Czech Republic with a length of 15 millimetres (0.59 in) | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Superphylum: | Deuterostomia |
Clade: | Ambulacraria |
Phylum: | Echinodermata |
Class: | †Cincta Jaekel, 1918 |
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Cinctans were sessile, asymmetrical animals with a skeleton made of stereom plates and a racquet-shaped body composed of a theca and stele. They may have had a lifestyle similar to modern tunicates, filter-feeding by pumping water through gill slits in their pharynx.