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Polymastiidae
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Gray,
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Some peculiar, club-shaped spicules have been found in the studied material that may be assigned to the family
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. Some of them have well developed pointed ends and strongly sculptured, club-shaped heads (
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Figs.
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KM). The others have small, weakly defined pointed ends and smooth, slightly club-shaped heads (
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Figs.
<number box="[1381,1409,1952,1976]" pageId="23" pageNumber="24" value="10.0">10</number>
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N, O). These club-shaped spicules strongly resemble those of Recent polymastiid
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<emphasis box="[1060,1205,1987,2012]" italics="true" pageId="23" pageNumber="24">Sphaerotylus</emphasis>
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Topsent,
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. The variability of the studied spicules may be intraspecific, or they may belong to at least two different species. Among seven currently known species of
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,
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the spicules with sculptured heads (
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Figs.
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KM) occur in
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<emphasis box="[151,436,223,248]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Sphaerotylus vanhoeffeni</emphasis>
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Hentschel,
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(described as
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<emphasis box="[795,928,224,248]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">S. capitatus</emphasis>
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; compare with
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Hentschel
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, fig. 5.5/
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Fig.
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C). This sponge is known from the
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Ocean (
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Hentschel
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) and it is also recorded from the Ross Sea, as well as from the coasts of
<collectingCountry box="[473,563,296,320]" name="Norway" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Norway</collectingCountry>
and
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(as synonym
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<emphasis box="[856,987,296,320]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">S. capitatus</emphasis>
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; van
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Soest
<emphasis box="[1115,1171,295,320]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">et al.</emphasis>
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). Another species having similar spicules is
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<emphasis box="[463,756,332,357]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Sphaerotylus exospinosus</emphasis>
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Lévi,
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which today inhabits
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, but its spicules possess more strongly sculptured heads (
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Lévi
<number box="[789,848,368,392]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" value="1993.0">1993</number>
, fig.
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C
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). Whereas the spicules with smooth clubshaped heads (
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Figs.
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N, O) belong undoubtedly to
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<emphasis box="[773,918,404,429]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Sphaerotylus</emphasis>
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sp., their assignment to a particular Recent species is difficult. Nevertheless, the presence of at least two different species of
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<emphasis box="[1059,1204,439,464]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Sphaerotylus</emphasis>
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is here postulated.
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Spicules that are similar in morphology had been described from the Jurassic of the Alps by
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Reif (
<number box="[1327,1387,476,501]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" value="1967.0">1967</number>
; but without a precise attribution)
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, however they have smooth heads and rounded tips (compare with
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Reif
<number box="[1294,1353,511,536]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25" value="1967.0">1967</number>
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, pl.
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, fig.
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).
</paragraph>
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<emphasis bold="true" box="[151,286,1880,1902]" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">FIGURE 11.</emphasis>
Verticillate acanthostrongyle of
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<emphasis box="[616,792,1880,1902]" italics="true" pageId="24" pageNumber="25">Dotona pulchella</emphasis>
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(redrawn from Calcinai
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2001).
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There are very few microscleres found in the studied material (except ovoid selenasters and sterrasters which are intermediate in size, between macro- and microscleres). One of them—very characteristic spiraster microsclere (about
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µm long)—may belong to hadromerid family
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or
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(
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Fig.
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Q). Unfortunately, the more precise assignment of this spicule is not possible due to paucity of the material. Nevertheless, the presence of other clionaid spicules and the absence of spicules belonging to spirastrellids suggest their clionaid affinity.
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