Cornuta
| Cornuta Temporal range: | |
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| Reconstruction of the cornute Cothurnocystis | |
| Fossil of Cothurnocystis elizae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | †Stylophora |
| Order: | †Cornuta Jaekel, 1901 |
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Cornuta is an extinct order of echinoderms. Along with the mitrates, they form the Stylophora.
Their first (probable) representative is Ponticulocarpus from the Spence Shale (mid Cambrian);, Ordovician examples also exist.