Falospongia

Falospongia
Temporal range: Burgess Shale
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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Monaxonida
Family: Hazeliidae
Genus: Falospongia
Rigby, 1986
Species
  • F. falata Rigby 1986[1] (type)
  • F. ramosa Rigby & Collins 2004[2]

Falospongia is a genus of sponge made up of radiating fronds, known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. It superficially resembles Haplistion but is monaxial.[2] 5 specimens of Falospongia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise under 0.1% of the community.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Rigby, J. K. (1986). "Sponges of the Burgess shale (Middle Cambrian), British Columbia". Palaeontographica Canadiana (2).
  2. 1 2 Rigby, J. K.; Collins, D. (2004). "Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and Stephen Formations, British Columbia". ROM contributions in science. 1. ISBN 0-88854-443-X. ISSN 1710-7768.
  3. ↑ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. JSTOR 20173022. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R.
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