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This list of prehistoric echinoderms is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera that have ever been included in the Echinoderms that have been preserved as fossils. This list excludes purely vernacular terms. It includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful ( nomina dubia ...
The name echinoderm is from Ancient Greek ἐχῖνος (ekhînos) 'hedgehog' and δέρμα (dérma) 'skin'. [5] Echinoderms are bilaterians , meaning that their ancestors were mirror-symmetric. Among the bilaterians, they belong to the deuterostome division, meaning that the blastopore , the first opening to form during embryo development ...
A brittle star, Ophionereis reticulata A sea cucumber from Malaysia Starfish exhibit a wide range of colours. This List of echinoderm orders concerns the various classes and orders into which taxonomists categorize the roughly 7000 extant species [1] as well as the extinct species of the exclusively marine phylum Echinodermata.
Echinolampas. This list of prehistoric echinoids is an attempt to create a comprehensive listing of all genera from the fossil record that have ever been considered to be echinoids, excluding purely vernacular terms. The list includes all commonly accepted genera, but also genera that are now considered invalid, doubtful (nomina dubia), or were ...
A chordate (/ ˈkɔːrdeɪt / KOR-dayt) is a deuterostomic bilaterial animal belonging to the phylum Chordata (/ kɔːrˈdeɪtə / kor-DAY-tə). All chordates possess, at some point during their larval or adult stages, five distinctive physical characteristics (synapomorphies) that distinguish them from other taxa.
S. List of prehistoric sea cucumbers. List of prehistoric starfish genera. List of prehistoric stylophoran genera. Categories: Prehistoric echinoderms. Lists of prehistoric animals. Lists of echinoderms.
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Category. : Echinoderms. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Echinodermata. Echinoderms (sea urchins, sea lilies, sea stars, crinoids, ...) are animals in the phylum Echinodermata. There are 5 subphyla, some of them being extinct: †Homalozoa, Crinozoa, Asterozoa, Echinozoa and †Blastozoa.