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, 84.9–70.6 Ma
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

References

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  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