Stellostomites
Extinct genus of disc-shaped animals
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Stellostomites is a discoidal animal known from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota.[1] It is classified with the eldoniids, and considered a junior synonym of Eldonia by some authors.[2]
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| Fossil specimen (IVPP I0241), Paleozoological Museum of China | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Clade: | †Cambroernida |
| Class: | †Eldonioidea |
| Family: | †Eldoniidae |
| Genus: | †Stellostomites Sun & Hou 1997 |
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| S. eumorphus Sun & Hou 1997 | |
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