Psammoactinia
Extinct genus of hydrozoans / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Psammoactinia antarctica was an encrusting, colonial cnidarian in the family Hydractiniidae that lived in the Cretaceous Antarctic. Within its family, P. antarctica had the unusual ability to agglutinate sand and silt grants, incorporating them into the basal layer and pillars making up the wall of the chambers of its laminae. It encrusted gastropod shells inhabited by hermit crabs of the genus Paguristes.
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Psammoactinia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Cnidaria |
Class: | Hydrozoa |
Order: | Anthoathecata |
Family: | Hydractiniidae |
Genus: | †Psammoactinia Olivero & Aguirre-Urreta, 1994 |
Species: | †P. antarctica |
Binomial name | |
†Psammoactinia antarctica Psammoactinia antarctica | |
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The Psammoactinia colony began with a larva landing on a small gastropod shell. The colony then grew past the aperture of the shell and formed a tube that conformed to the hermit crab’s shape and growing pattern.