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{{Short description|Extinct class of marine lamp shells}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{Fossil range|Cambrian |Permian |refs=<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://fossiilid.info/71|title=Chileata}}</ref>}}
| taxon = Chileata
| authority =
|subdivision_ranks = Orders and Families
| subdivision =
{{nested taxon list
|Order Chileida,
Superfamily Matutelloidea||
{{taxon list|Matutellidae||Chileidae||}}
|Order Dictyonellida,
Superfamily Eichwaldioidea||
{{taxon list|Eichwaldiidae||Isogrammidae||}}
}}
}}
'''Chileata''' Wiliams ''et al.'', 1996 is a [[Class (biology)|class]] of [[Rhynchonelliformea|rhynchonelliform]] [[brachiopod]]s, characterised, among others, by the presence of a perforation in the umbonal region of the ventral valve, usually (partly) covered by a [[colleplax]]. They are known from the [[Cambrian]] to the Lower [[Permian]].<ref>{{TreatiseH}}</ref>
''Salanygolina'' may represent the chileate stem group.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=HOLMER |first1=LARS E |last2=STOLK |first2=SANDRA PETTERSSON |last3=SKOVSTED |first3=CHRISTIAN B. |last4=BALTHASAR |first4=UWE |last5=POPOV |first5=LEONID |date=January 2009 |title=THE ENIGMATIC EARLY CAMBRIAN ''SALANYGOLINA'' – A STEM GROUP OF RHYNCHONELLIFORM CHILEATE BRACHIOPODS? |url=https://www.palass.org/publications/palaeontology-journal/archive/52/1/article_pp1-10 |journal=Palaeontology |language=en |volume=52 |issue=1 |pages=1–10 |doi=10.1111/j.1475-4983.2008.00831.x |s2cid=129100626 |issn=0031-0239}}</ref>
==References==
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