Vauxia

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Vauxia
Fossil range: Cambrian
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongaea
Order: Verospongiida
Genus: Vauxia
Species
  •  ?V. magna

Vauxia is an extinct genus of a large, branching sponge. Each branch was comprised of a network of strands. Vauxia also had a skeleton of spongin (flexible organic material) common to modern day sponges. Much like Choia and other sponges, Vauxia fed by extracting nutrients from the water.

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