Erylus sp.

Łukowiak, Magdalena, Pisera, Andrzej & Stefanska, Tetiana, 2019, Uncovering the hidden diversity of Paleogene sponge fauna of the East European Platform through reassessment of the record of isolated spicules, Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 64 (4), pp. 871-895 : 872

publication ID

https://doi.org/ 10.4202/app.00612.2019

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scientific name

Erylus sp.
status

 

Erylus sp.

Fig. 1A, G, H View Fig .

Material.—Upper Eocene, south-central Ukraine.

Remarks.—The flat, ellipsoidal spicules called aspidasters ( Fig. 1A, G, H View Fig ) are characteristic for geodiid Erylus Gray, 1867 (subfamily Erylinae Sollas, 1888 ; compare Adams and Hooper 2001: fig. 3I). Also other spicules ( Fig. 5E, M) and some of the aspidasters (e.g., Fig. 1H View Fig ), could belong to some other erylinin sponges e.g., Pachymatisma monaena Lendenfeld, 1907 (compare Lendenfeld 1907: pl. 35: 21–46). However, this assignment is highly speculative.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Porifera

Class

Demospongiae

Order

Tetractinellida

Family

Geodiidae

Genus

Erylus

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