Archaeaphorme
| Archaeaphorme Temporal range:
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Hexactinellida |
| Order: | Lyssacinosida |
| Family: | Rossellidae |
| Genus: | †Archaeaphorme |
| Species: | †A. conica
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| †Archaeaphorme conica Botting et. al., 2025
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Archaeaphorme is an extinct genus of rossellid that lived during the Hirnantian stage of the Late Ordovician epoch.
Distribution
[edit]Archaeaphorme conica is known from the Anji Biota of China.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Botting, Joseph P.; Janussen, Dorte; Dohrmann, Martin; Muir, Lucy A.; Zhang, Yuandong; Ma, Junye (26 January 2025). "Advanced crown‐group Rossellidae (Porifera: Hexactinellida) resembling extant taxa from the Hirnantian (Late Ordovician) Anji Biota". Papers in Palaeontology. 11 (1). doi:10.1002/spp2.70000. ISSN 2056-2799. Retrieved 1 April 2025 – via Wiley Online Library.
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