Halichondrites

Halichondrites
Temporal range: Sirius Passet - Burgess Shale[1]
A squared-off piece of flat rock with the outline of a worm-like creature fossilized.
Fossil detail of a Halichondrites elissa, on display at the Naturhistorisches Museum, Vienna.
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Genus: Halichondrites
Rigby, 1986
Species: H. elissa

Halichondrites elissa (sometimes mis-spelt Halicondrites[2]) is a monospecific genus of sponge known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 7 specimens of Halichondrites are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise < 0.1% of the community.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Botting, J. (2007). "‘Cambrian’ demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: Insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges". Geobios. 40 (6): 737–748. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2007.02.006.
  2. ↑ http://museumu03.museumwww.naturkundemuseum-berlin.de/cgi-bin/bridge.pl?action=basicTaxonInfo&taxon_no=2925&is_real_user=1
  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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