Biology:Myrmecioptychium
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Short description: Extinct sea sponge
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Hexactinellida |
| Order: | Lychniscosida |
| Family: | †Coeloptychidae |
| Genus: | †Myrmecioptychium Schrammen, 1912 |
| Species: | †M. bodei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Myrmecioptychium bodei Schrammen, 1912
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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
- ↑ 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]
- ↑ "Myrmecioptychium Schrammen, 1912". GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/4574878/metrics.
- ↑ "Fossilworks: Coeloptychium (Myrmecioptychium)". Fossilworks. http://www.fossilworks.org/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?a=taxonInfo&taxon_no=189937.
- ↑ "Transitory level of modular organization in the Late Cretaceous hexactinellids (Porifera)". https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318502556.
- ↑ 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
Wikidata ☰ Q104855009 entry
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