Ajacicyathus
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Ajacicyathidae
- Order: Ajacicyathus
Visual Description
Ajacicyathus records in this build are based on museum fossil specimens.
In available images (e.g., GBIF/MNHN-linked views), Ajacicyathus is typically depicted as a mineralized skeletal remnant with a cup- or dome-like overall form, consistent with a fossil calcareous sponge framework preserved as an isolated specimen. The photographed views generally emphasize macroscopic morphology rather than living tissue characteristics.
Nomenclature and Taxonomic Status
GBIF lists Ajacicyathus Bedford & Bedford, 1939 as an accepted genus-level name in the family Ajacicyathidae under its Porifera lineage.
Notes on Geological Context
A regional geological synthesis focused on the Triassic-and-older stratigraphic and tectonic framework of “Central and North Manchuria and its adjacency” (including the “Manmo Group”) is available for this taxonomic path, but it does not provide order-level sponge taxonomy that can be directly checked for Ajacicyathus.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Ajacicyathidae / Ajacicyathus constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.