Comparative skeletal anatomy supports interpreting stromatoporoids as sponge-grade organisms in the reviewed material, but affinity and character homology remain historical systematic inferences rather than a fixed crown placement. This navigation entry is not a phylogeny or a complete taxon dossier.
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Comparative skeletal anatomy supports interpreting stromatoporoids as sponge-grade organisms in the reviewed material, but affinity and character homology remain historical systematic inferences rather than a fixed crown placement.
claim:taxon:stromatoporoideaStromatoporoidea has no published scalar range here: the reviewed record comprises a Palaeozoic Ordovician–Late Devonian episode and a separate Late Triassic–Cretaceous, rarely Cenozoic, stromatoporoid-grade episode, so the former 485–359 Ma continuous display is withheld.
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