Petaloptyon
Petaloptyon danei is a goblet-shaped calcareous sponge known from rare fragments from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. A few specimens of Petaloptyon are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise under 0.01% of the community.[1]
| Petaloptyon | |
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| Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Stem group: | Hexactinellida |
| Informal group: | †"Heteractinida" |
| Family: | †Eiffeliidae |
| Genus: | †Petaloptyon Raymond, 1931 |
| Species: | †P. danei |
| Binomial name | |
| †Petaloptyon danei Raymond, 1931 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Canistrumella alternata Rigby, 1986 | |
The fragments show the living animal had a stalk, and had panels with a lattice pattern.
References
- Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022.
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