Hexactinellida - Lychniscosa - Coeloptychidae
Alternative spelling: Myrmecioptychium
Full reference: A. Schrammen. 1912. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida) [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida)]. Palaeontographica, Supplement 5:176-385
Parent taxon: Coeloptychium according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Coeloptychium (Coeloptychium), Coeloptychium (Lophoptychium), Coeloptychium deciminum, Coeloptychium incisum, Coeloptychium princeps, Coeloptychium rude, Coeloptychium seebachi, Coeloptychium subagaricoides, Coeloptychium sulciferum
Subtaxa: Coeloptychium (Myrmecioptychium) bodei
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Broitzem (Cretaceous of Germany)