Stellostomites

{{Short description|Extinct genus of disc-shaped animals}} {{Automatic taxobox | fossil_range = {{fossil range|Chengjiang}} | image = Stellostomites IVPP.jpg | image_caption = Fossil specimen (IVPP I0241), Paleozoological Museum of China | taxon = Stellostomites | authority = Sun & Hou 1997 | type_species = S. eumorphus | type_species_authority = Sun & Hou 1997 | synonyms = * ''Yunnanomedusa'' {{small|Sun & Hou 1997}} * ?''Eldonia'' {{small|Walcott 1911}} | subdivision_ranks = Species | subdivision = * ''S. eumorphus'' {{small|Sun & Hou 1997}} (=''Y. elegans'' {{small|Sun & Hou 1997}};<br />=?''E. eumorpha'' {{small|(Sun & Hou 1997)}}) }}

'''''Stellostomites''''' is a discoidal animal known from the Cambrian Chengjiang biota.<ref>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1016/S0016-6995(02)00025-6| title = Révision des animaux discoïdes cambriens Stellostomites eumorphus et Pararotadiscus guizhouensis de Chine du Sud| year = 2002| last1 = Zhu | first1 = M.| last2 = Zhao| first2 = Yuan-Long| last3 = Chen| first3 = Jun-Yuan| journal = Geobios| volume = 35| issue = 2| pages = 165–185}}</ref> It is classified with the eldoniids, and considered a junior synonym of ''Eldonia'' by some authors.<ref name=Schroeder2018>{{Cite journal |last1=Schroeder |first1=Natalie I. |last2=Paterson |first2=John R. |last3=Brock |first3=Glenn A. |date=2018 |title=Eldonioids with associated trace fossils from the lower Cambrian Emu Bay Shale Konservat-Lagerstätte of South Australia |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-paleontology/article/abs/eldonioids-with-associated-trace-fossils-from-the-lower-cambrian-emu-bay-shale-konservatlagerstatte-of-south-australia/05F449A7147B8DB89E74F26E2A443E88 |journal=Journal of Paleontology |language=en |volume=92 |issue=1 |pages=80–86 |doi=10.1017/jpa.2018.6 |bibcode=2018JPal...92...80S |s2cid=197586878 |issn=0022-3360|url-access=subscription }}</ref>

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Category:Cambroernids Category:Cambrian animals of Asia