Chileata

Chileata; Temporal range: Cambrian –Permian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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 ; ;

A rhynchonelliform class,^[2] characterised by the presence of a colleplax; closest relative (?): Salanygolina.^[3]

Salanygolina

Thought to be a sister group.^[3]

^ http://fossiilid.info/71
^ Williams, Alwyn; Brunton, C.H.C.; Carlson, S.J.; et al. (1997–2007). Kaesler, Roger L.; Selden, Paul (eds.). Part H, Brachiopoda (Revised). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology. Boulder, Colorado; Lawrence, Kansas: Geological Society of America; University of Kansas.
^ ^a ^b Holmer, L.E., Stolk, S.P., Skovsted, C.B., Balthasar, U., and Popov, L. (2009). The enigmatic early Cambrian ~Salanygolina~ - A stem group of rhynchonelliform chileate brachiopods? Palaeontology 52, 1–10.

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