Chileata

Chileata
Temporal range:
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Brachiopoda
Subphylum: Rhynchonelliformea
Class: †Chileata
Orders and Families
  • Order Chileida, Superfamily Matutelloidea
    • Matutellidae
    • Chileidae
  • Order Dictyonellida, Superfamily Eichwaldioidea
    • Eichwaldiidae
    • Isogrammidae

Chileata Wiliams et al., 1996 is a class of rhynchonelliform brachiopods, characterised, among others, by the presence of a perforation in the umbonal region of the ventral valve, usually (partly) covered by a colleplax. They are known from the Cambrian to the Lower Permian.

Salanygolina may represent the chileate stem group.

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