Protomelission is a Cambrian fossil taxon of contested affinity. It comprises cataphract arrays of box-like chambers, forming a club-shaped thallus surrounding...

from fossilized and modern forms. In 2021, some research suggested Protomelission, a genus known from the Cambrian period, could be an example of an early...

compared to spicules of ecdysozoan worms, whereas others likely belong to Protomelission-like organisms, which have been argued to be affiliated with the dasycladalean...

relationships of Heterocorallia, is published by Berkowski et al. (2021). Protomelission gatehousei is reinterpreted as a potential stem-group bryozoan by Zhang...

Jie; Lan, Tian; Zhang, Xi-Guang; Smith, Martin R. (8 March 2023). "Protomelission is an early dasyclad alga and not a Cambrian bryozoan". Nature. 615...

Allonnia. Yang et al. (2023) reinterpret putative Cambrian bryozoan Protomelission as an early dasycladalean green alga, and conclude that there are no...

(2023) reinterpret Protomelission as an early dasycladalean green alga; however, Xiang et al. (2023) subsequently interpret Protomelission as a scleritome...