Naimarkcyathus Wrona and Zhuravlev 1996 (archaeocyath sponge)

Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Naimarkcyathidae

Full reference: R. Wrona and A. Y. Zhuravlev. 1996. Early Cambrian archaeocyaths from glacial erratics of King George Island (South Shetland Islands), Antarctica. Palaeontologia Polonica 55:9-36

Parent taxon: Naimarkcyathidae according to F. Debrenne et al. 2015

See also Wrona and Zhuravlev 1996

Sister taxa: none

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Glacial erratics on King George Is., reef facies (probably from Argentina Range) (Cambrian of Antarctica)

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