Chileata
Temporal range: Cambrian –Permian[1]
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Subphylum: Rhynchonelliformea
Class: †Chileata
Orders and Families
  • Order Chileida, Superfamily Matutelloidea
    • Matutellidae
    • Chileidae
  • Order Dictyonellida, Superfamily Eichwaldioidea
    • Eichwaldiidae
    • Isogrammidae

Chileata Wiliams et al., 1996 is a class of rhynchonelliform brachiopods, characterised, among others, by the presence of a perforation in the umbonal region of the ventral valve, usually (partly) covered by a colleplax. They are known from the Cambrian to the Lower Permian.[2]

Salanygolina may represent the chileate stem group.[3]

References

  1. ^ "Chileata".
  2. ^ Williams, Alwyn; Brunton, C.H.C.; Carlson, S.J.; et al. (1997–2007). Kaesler, Roger L.; Selden, Paul (eds.). Part H, Brachiopoda (Revised). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Boulder, Colorado; Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America; University of Kansas.
  3. ^ HOLMER, LARS E; STOLK, SANDRA PETTERSSON; SKOVSTED, CHRISTIAN B.; BALTHASAR, UWE; POPOV, LEONID (January 2009). "THE ENIGMATIC EARLY CAMBRIANSALANYGOLINA- A STEM GROUP OF RHYNCHONELLIFORM CHILEATE BRACHIOPODS?". Palaeontology. 52 (1): 1–10. doi:10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00831.x. ISSN 0031-0239. S2CID 129100626.


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