Paropsonema

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Paropsonema
Temporal range: Devonian
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Stem group: Ambulacraria
Clade: Cambroernida
Class: Eldonioidea
Clade: Paropsonemida
Genus: Paropsonema
Clarke 1900
Type species
P. cryptophya
Clarke 1900
Species [1] [2]
  • P. cryptophyaClarke 1900
  •  ? †P. mirabileChapman 1926

Paropsonema is an eldonioid known from the Devonian of upstate New York and (if P. mirabile is a species of Paropsonema rather than Discophyllum ) the Silurian of southern Australia. It is the latest-surviving known member of the Eldonioidea and Cambroernida. [1]

A specimen described in 2018 may represent an additional species, but has been tentatively assigned to P. cryptohya; [3] it represents the youngest described paropsonemid. [4]

The species Discophyllum mirabile has been thought to be closer to Paropsonema than to the sole previously-described species of Discophyllum, D. peltata. [5] As a result, sources treat it as Paropsonema mirabile. [1] Conversely, at least one worker has treated P. cryptophya as a member of Discophyllum, D. cryptophya, although this has not been followed by later authors. [6] Regardless, Paropsonema and Discophyllum are grouped together informally as "paropsonemids." [6] [1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Schroeder, Paterson & Brock 2018 , pp. 80–81
  2. "†Discophyllum mirabile Chapman 1926". The Paleobiology Database. Retrieved 29 December 2024.
  3. Hagadorn & Allmon 2018 , p. 213
  4. Hagadorn & Allmon 2018 , p. 208
  5. Zhu, Zhao & Chen 2002 , p. 180
  6. 1 2 Hagadorn & Allmon 2018 , p. 212

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