// Workers AI · dad joke modeWhat did Fieldospongia say to its date? You're a sponge for attention.
| Fieldospongia Temporal range: | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Family: | †Anthaspidellidae |
| Genus: | †Fieldospongia |
Fieldospongia is a genus of sea sponge known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. Just five specimens of Fieldospongia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise less than 0.1% of the community.[1]
Described in 1920 as Tuponia bellilineata by Walcott in his monograph on sponges from the Burgess Shale, this form has now been placed within a separate genus, Fieldospongia, erected by Rigby in 1986. The only known specimen purportedly came from the Mount Whyte Formation[2]
References
[edit]- ↑ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. Bibcode:2006Palai..21..451C. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022.
- ↑ "The Burgess Shale". burgess-shale.rom.on.ca. Royal Ontario Museum. 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2020-03-01.[permanent dead link]
External links
[edit]- Burgess Shale species 55 Archived 2017-08-09 at the Wayback Machine
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