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- Title
Hikorocodium Endo is not an alga but an inozoid sponge.
- Authors
Senowbari-Daryan, Baba; Rigby, J. Keith
- Abstract
The genus Hikorocodium, with the type species Hikorocodium elegantae from the Permian of Japan, was described originally as a codiacean alga by Endo. It is not a codiacean alga but an inozoid sponge of the family Preperonidellidae. Several fossils described later by Endo and other authors as H. elegantae should be assigned to different inozoid sponge taxa. Specimens of H. fertiliz, described by Endo from the Jurassic of Japan, are also sponge fragments. The taxonomic positions of H. transversum Endo and H. kuramotoi Nakamura, as sponges or algae, remain uncertain.
- Subjects
KITAKAMI Mountains (Japan); JAPAN; CODIACEAE; CORALLINE algae; FOSSIL dasycladaceae; FOSSIL algae; FOSSIL sponges; FOSSIL protozoa; JURASSIC paleontology
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, 2007, Vol 44, Issue 2, p149
- ISSN
0008-4077
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/E06-070