Pararcheoentactinia Won & Iams, 2002

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Pararcheoentactinia Won & Iams, 2002

Pararcheoentactinia Won & Iams, 2002: 9 .

TYPE SPECIES. — Pararcheoentactinia reedae Won & Iams, 2002 ( Won & Iams 2002: 9, fig. 8.1-8.21, 9.1-9.20, 10.1-10.20).

AGE AND LOCATION OF TYPE MATERIAL. — Upper Cambrian, Cow Head Group, Western Newfoundland, Canada.

TAXON CODE. — 045.

STATUS. — Valid.

DIAGNOSIS. — “A skeleton with a spherical shell and one point centered spicule. The spherical shell varying from a disorderly and threedimensionally interwoven primitive meshwork of straight to slightly curved bars to a typical spongy tissue. The point-center of the spicule positioned from eccentrically within the central shell cavity to immediately adjacent to the innermost shell wall; rays with or without spinules (or trace of spinules); spinules with or without connection to the shell meshwork, but where all the spinules connected to the shell wall, the rays forming a part of the shell wall; rod-like rays protruding out of the shell wall as outer spines.” ( Won & Iams 2002: 9).