Phlogites
| Phlogites Temporal range: | |
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Restoration of Phlogites (with tentacles extended) Phlogites longus fossil | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Superphylum: | Deuterostomia |
| Stem group: | Ambulacraria |
| Clade: | †Cambroernida |
| Genus: | †Phlogites Luo & Hu, 1999 |
| Species: | †P. longus |
| Binomial name | |
| †Phlogites longus Luo & Hu, 1999 | |
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Phlogites is a member of the extinct ambulacrarian stem group Cambroernida, occupying an intermediate position between the basal Herpetogaster and the more derived Eldonioidea. It is known from the Lower Cambrian Haikou Chengjiang deposits of China.