Petaloptyon
| Petaloptyon Temporal range:
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| Artist's reconstruction | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Informal group: | †"Heteractinida" |
| Family: | †Eiffeliidae |
| Genus: | †Petaloptyon Raymond, 1931 |
| Species: | †P. danei
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| Binomial name | |
| †Petaloptyon danei Raymond, 1931
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| Synonyms | |
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Canistrumella alternata Rigby, 1986 | |
Petaloptyon danei is a goblet-shaped hexactinellid 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]
The fragments show the living animal had a stalk, and had panels with a lattice pattern.
References[edit]
- ^ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. Bibcode:2006Palai..21..451C. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022. S2CID 53646959.
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