Fieldospongia

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Fieldospongia
Temporal range: Burgess Shale
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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

  1. 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.
  2. "The Burgess Shale". burgess-shale.rom.on.ca. Royal Ontario Museum. 2011-06-10. Retrieved 2020-03-01.[ permanent dead link ]