@article {5856,
	title = {Cambrian archaeocyathan metazoans: revision of morphological characters and standardization of genus descriptions to establish an online identification tool},
	journal = {{ZooKeys}},
	volume = {150},
	year = {2011},
	month = {nov},
	pages = {381{\textendash}395},
	abstract = {Archaeocyatha represent the oldest calcified sponges and the first metazoans to build bioconstructions in association with calcimicrobes. They are a key group in biology, evolutionary studies, biostratigraphy, paleoecology and paleogeography of the early Cambrian times. The establishing of a new standardized terminology for archaeocyathans description has permitted the creation of the first knowledge base in English including descriptions of all archaeocyathan genera. This base, using the {XPER{\texttwosuperior}} software package, is an integral part of the {-Archaeocyatha-} a knowledge base website, freely available at url http://www.infosyslab.fr/archaeocyatha. The website is composed of common information about Archaeocyatha, general remarks about the knowledge base, the description of the 307 genera recognized with images of type-specimens of type-species for each genus, as well as additional morphological data, an interactive free access key and its user {guide.The} automatic analysis and comparison of the digitized descriptions have identified some genera with highly similar morphology. These results are a great help for future taxonomic revisions and suggest a number of possible synonymies that require further study.},
	doi = {10.3897/zookeys.150.1566},
	url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.3897/zookeys.150.1566},
	author = {Kerner, Adeline and Debrenne, Fran{\c c}oise and Vignes-Lebbe, R{\'e}gine}
}
