Coeloptychium
Coeloptychium Temporal range: Cretaceous,
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Fossil of Coeloptychium agaricoides from the Campanian of , Lower Saxony | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Porifera
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Class: | Hexactinellida
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Family: | † Roemer, 1864
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Genus: | †Coeloptychium Goldfuss, 1826
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Coeloptychium is an extinct genus of lychniscosidan hexasterophoran sea sponge which has often been used as an index fossil.[1] Its remains have been found in Cretaceous sediments in Germany, Belgium, France and the UK.[2] Coeloptyhcium is best preserved in Campanian sediments in Germany. The type species, C. agaricoides, was named in 1826.
Species[]
- Goldfuss, 1826
- Roemer, 1841
- Roemer, 1841
- Roemer, 1861
- Zittel, 1876
- Zittel, 1876
- Sinov, 1871
- Roemer, 1841
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]
- ^ 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 [W. Kiessling/U. Merkel/U. Merkel]
Categories:
- Fossil taxa described in 1826
- Sponge genera
- Hexactinellida