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      Homostelea is an extinct class of exclusively Middle Cambrian echinoderms. They are characterised by absence of a feeding arm, flat, relatively flat thaeca and by stem of essentially 2 series of plates.

Morphology of homostelean Trochocystites bohemicus. After Bruno et al. (2000)

Reference: Paleobiology 26(4):529-555. 2000

Trochocystites bohemicus

Inv. no.	VL694
Taxonomy	Kmen: Echinodermata / Třída: Homostelea / Rod: Trochocystites / Druh: bohemicus
Description
Lithostratigraphy	jinecké souvrství
Chronostratigraphy	paleozoikum - kambrium - střední kambrium

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