Kailidiscus

{{Short description|Extinct genus of marine invertebrates}}

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{{Taxobox

| name = Kailidiscus chinensis

| fossil_range = {{fossil_range|Middle Cambrian}}

| regnum = Animalia

| phylum = Echinodermata

| classis = Edrioasteroidea

| ordo =

| familia = incertae sedis

| genus = Kailidiscus

| genus_authority = Zhao et al., 2010

| species = K. chinensis

| binomial = Kailidiscus chinensis

| binomial_authority = Zhao et al., 2010

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Kailidiscus is an extinct genus of echinoderms which existed in what is now China during the Middle Cambrian period.{{cite journal |author1=Yuanlong Zhao |author2=Colin D. Sumrall |author3=Ronald L. Parsley |author4=Jin Peng |year=2010 |url=http://jpaleontol.geoscienceworld.org/cgi/content/abstract/84/4/668 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |volume=84 |issue=4 |pages=668–680 |title=Kailidiscus, a new plesiomorphic edrioasteroid from the basal Middle Cambrian Kaili Biota of Guizhou Province, China |doi=10.1666/09-159.1|bibcode=2010JPal...84..668Z |s2cid=129994021 }} 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. It bears close resemblance to the Burgess Shale fossil Walcottidiscus.{{Cite web | url=https://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/fossils/walcottidiscus-typicalis/ | title=Walcottidiscus typicalis }}