Kailidiscus
Extinct genus of marine invertebrates
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Kailidiscus is an extinct genus of echinoderms which existed in what is now China during the Middle Cambrian period.[1] It was named by Yuanlong Zhao, Colin D. Sumrall, Ronald L. Parsley and Jin Peng in 2010, and the type and only species is Kailidiscus chinensis.[1] It bears close resemblance to the Burgess Shale fossil Walcottidiscus.[2]
| Kailidiscus Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | †Edrioasteroidea |
| Order: | †incertae sedis |
| Genus: | †Kailidiscus Zhao et al., 2010 |
| Species: | †K. chinensis |
| Binomial name | |
| †Kailidiscus chinensis Zhao et al., 2010 | |
