Crumillospongia

Crumillospongia Temporal range: Upper Lower Cambrian–Middle Cambrian PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Fossil of Crumillospongia frondosa
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Demospongiae
Order:	† Protomonaxonida
Family:	† Hazeliidae
Genus:	† Crumillospongia Rigby, 1986 [1]
Species
C. frondosa (Walcott, 1919) Rigby, 1986 C. biporosaRigby, 1986

Crumillospongia is a genus of middle Cambrian sponges known from the Burgess Shale and other localities from the Lower and Middle Cambrian. ^{[2] [3]} Its name is derived from the Latin crumilla ("money purse") and spongia ("sponge"), a reflection of its similarity to a small leathery money purse. That is, it has a saclike shape, and its wall has holes of two sizes, with a well-developed internal canal system. ^[2] 49 specimens of Crumillospongia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.1% of the community. ^[4]

References

1. Rigby, J. K. (1986). "Sponges of the Burgess shale (Middle Cambrian), British Columbia". Palaeontographica Canadiana (2).
2. Briggs, D. E. G.; Erwin, D. H.; Collier, F. J. (1995), Fossils of the Burgess Shale , Washington: Smithsonian Inst Press, ISBN   1-56098-659-X, OCLC   231793738
3. García-Bellido, D. C.; Dies Álvarez, M. E.; Gámez Vintaned, J. A.; Gozalo, R. (2011). "First report of Crumillospongia (Demospongea) from the Cambrian of Europe (Murero biota, Spain)" (PDF). Bulletin of Geosciences: 641–650. doi: 10.3140/bull.geosci.1253 .
4. 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. S2CID   53646959.

External links

• "Crumillospongia frondosa". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2017-08-09.