Myrmecioptychium
Temporal range: Late Cretaceous,
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Hexactinellida
Order: Lychniscosida
Family: Coeloptychidae
Genus: Myrmecioptychium
Schrammen, 1912
Species:
M. bodei
Binomial name
Myrmecioptychium bodei
Schrammen, 1912

Myrmecioptychium is an extinct lychniscosidan hexasterophoran sea sponge, which is a subgenus of Coeloptychium.[1][2][3][4] Its remains have been found in Santonian-Maastrichtian-aged deposits in Broitzem, Germany and Poland. The type species, M. bodei, was named in 1912.[5]

References

  1. R. M. Finks, R. E. H. Reid, and J. K. Rigby. 2004. Porifera (Demospongea, Hexactinellida, Heteractinida, Calcarea). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part E, Revised E(3):1-872 [W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling/W. Kiessling]
  2. "Myrmecioptychium Schrammen, 1912". www.gbif.org. GBIF. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
  3. "Fossilworks: Coeloptychium (Myrmecioptychium)". fossilworks.org. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
  4. "Transitory level of modular organization in the Late Cretaceous hexactinellids (Porifera)". ResearchGate.
  5. A. Schrammen. 1912. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida) [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida)]. Palaeontographica, Supplement 5:176-385


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