Hazelia

Hazelia; Temporal range: Chengjiang–Middle Ordovician PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
	A specimen of Hazelia at the Mount Stephen Trilobite Beds
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Demospongiae
Order:	†Protomonaxonida
Family:	†Hazeliidae
Genus:	†Hazelia; Walcott, 1920
Species
	H. palmata Walcott, 1920 (type) ; H. conferta Walcott, 1920 ; H. crateria Rigby, 1986 ; H. delicatula Walcott, 1920 ; H. dignata (Walcott, 1920) Rigby & Collins, 2004 ; H. grandis Walcott, 1920 ; H. luteria Rigby, 1986 ; H. obscura Walcott, 1920 ; H. lobata Rigby & Collins, 2004 ;

Hazelia is a genus of spicular Cambrian demosponge known from the Burgess Shale, the Marjum formation of Utah,^[4] and possibly Chengjiang.^[1] It was described by Charles Walcott in 1920.^[5]

Its tracts are mainly radial and anastomose to form an irregular skeleton.^[4] Its oxeas form a fine net in the skin of the sponge.^[4]

References

1 2 Botting, J. (2007). "'Cambrian' demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: Insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges". Geobios. 40 (6): 737–748. Bibcode:2007Geobi..40..737B. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2007.02.006.
↑ Rigby, J. K. (1986). "Sponges of the Burgess shale (Middle Cambrian), British Columbia". Palaeontographica Canadiana (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.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
1 2 3 J. Keith Rigby; Lloyd F. Gunther; Freida Gunther (1997). "The First Occurrence of the Burgess Shale Demosponge Hazelia palmata Walcott, 1920, in the Cambrian of Utah". Journal of Paleontology. 71 (6): 994–997. Bibcode:1997JPal...71..994R. doi:10.1017/S0022336000035976. JSTOR 1306598. S2CID 130706440.
↑ Walcott, C. D. (1920). "Cambrian geology and paleontology IV:6—Middle Cambrian Spongiae". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 67: 261–364.

"Hazelia palmata". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2023-01-21.

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