Myrmecioptychium Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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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]
Myrmecioptychium Temporal range:
Late Cretaceous,
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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
|
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]