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
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References
edit- ^ 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". www.gbif.org. GBIF. Retrieved 2020-09-04.
- ^ "Fossilworks: Coeloptychium (Myrmecioptychium)". fossilworks.org. Fossilworks. Retrieved 17 December 2021.
- ^ "Transitory level of modular organization in the Late Cretaceous hexactinellids (Porifera)". ResearchGate.
- ^ 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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