Cothurnocystis
| Cothurnocystis Temporal range: | |
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| Cothurnocystis elizae | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Echinodermata |
| Class: | †Stylophora |
| Order: | †Cornuta |
| Family: | †Cothurnocystidae |
| Subfamily: | †Cothurnocystinae |
| Genus: | †Cothurnocystis Bather, 1913 |
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Cothurnocystis is a genus of small enigmatic echinoderms that lived during the Ordovician. Individual animals had a flat boot-shaped body and a thin rod-shaped appendage that may be a stem, or analogous to a foot or a tail. Fossils of Cothurnocystis species have been found in Nevada, Scotland, Czech Republic, France and Morocco.