Banffozoa
| Banffozoa Temporal range: about Cambrian Stage 3—Drumian | |
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"Form A" fossil "Form A" diagram Fossils and diagrams of banffozoans | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Chordata |
| Clade?: | †Vetulicolia |
| Class: | †Banffozoa Caron 2006 |
| Type species | |
| †Banffia constricta Walcott, 1911 | |
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| Synonyms | |
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†Heteromorphida Shu 2005 (see text) | |
![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Fossil_of_Heteromorphus-like_species_"Form_A".png){kind=link}
![](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Diagram_of_Heteromorphus-like_species_"Form_A".png){kind=link}
Banffozoa (also called Heteromorphida) is an extinct class of bilaterians. Most workers place it in the Vetulicolia, but the protostome-like features of some members have motivated ongoing debate. Banffozoa consists of the order Banffiata (which has only one family, Banffiidae) as well as a dwarf "Form A" that has not been formally described or named. Skeemella has been placed incertae sedis in this class, but has more recently been placed with the Banffiidae (if it is a banffozoan or vetulicolian at all). Banffozoa may be paraphyletic even if Vetulicolia is monophyletic.