''Kailidiscus'' is an
extinct genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
echinoderm
An echinoderm () is any member of the phylum Echinodermata (). The adults are recognisable by their (usually five-point) radial symmetry, and include starfish, brittle stars, sea urchins, sand dollars, and sea cucumbers, as well as the s ...
s which existed in what is now
China during the Middle
Cambrian period.
It was named by Yuanlong Zhao, Colin D. Sumrall, Ronald L. Parsley and Jin Peng in
2010, and the
type and only species is ''Kailidiscus chinensis''.
References
Edrioasteroidea
Prehistoric Crinozoa genera
Cambrian echinoderms
Fossil taxa described in 2010
Fossils of China
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