Hyolithidae
| Hyolithidae Temporal range: | |
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| Hyolithes cerops | |
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| Haplophrentis carinatus | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Class: | †Hyolitha |
| Order: | †Hyolithida |
| Family: | †Hyolithidae Nicholson, 1872[2] |
| Type genus | |
| †Hyolithes[1] d'Eichwald, 1840[3] | |
| Genera | |
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The Hyolithidae are a family of hyoliths[1][2] (an extinct class of basal lophotrochozoans[4]) that lived from the Early Cambrian until the Late Permian.[1]
Genera
[edit]- †Brittanella Malinky & Racheboeuf, 2010
- †Carinolithes Sysoev, 1958
- †Dilytes Marek, 1974
- †Elegantilites Marek, 1966
- †Eumorpholites Marek, 1967
- †Gompholites Marek, 1967
- †Hallotheca Malinky, Linsley & Yochelson, 1987
- †Haplophrentis Matthew, 1899
- †Helenia Walcott, 1890
- †Hyolithes d'Eichwald, 1840 (type[1])
- †Joachimilites Marek, 1967
- †Korilithes Missarzhevsky, 1969
- †Maxilites Marek, 1972
- †Nevadalites Marek, 1976
- †Nevadotheca Malinky, 1988
- †Novakotheca Malinky, 1990
Possible members
[edit]- †Amphorotheca Pillet & Beaulieu, 1995
- †Australolithes Burrow & Smith, 2024
- †Nervolites Marek, 1974
- †Sololites Marek, 1967
- †Yalarrnga Kruse, 2002
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Hyolithidae in the Paleobiology Database
- 1 2 3 4 Hyolithidae Nicholson, 1872 †. Retrieved through: Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera on 24 January 2026.
- ↑ Hyolithes in the Paleobiology Database
- ↑ Liu, Fan; Skovsted, Christian B; Topper, Timothy P; Zhang, Zhifei; Shu, Degan (2020-02-01). "Are hyoliths Palaeozoic lophophorates?". National Science Review. 7 (2): 453–469. doi:10.1093/nsr/nwz161. ISSN 2095-5138. PMC 8289160. PMID 34692060.
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