Pirania

Pirania; Temporal range: Burgess Shale–Middle Ordovician PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Demospongiae
Order:	† Protomonaxonida
Family:	† Piraniidae
Genus:	† Pirania ; Walcott, 1920
Type species
	Pirania muricata; Walcott, 1920
Species
	Pirania auraenum Botting, 2007; Pirania llanfawrensis Botting, 2004; Pirania muricata Walcott, 1920 ;

Last updated March 28, 2025

Pirania is an extinct genus of sea sponge known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and the Ordovician Fezouata formation.^[3] It is named after Mount St. Piran, a mountain situated in the Bow River Valley in Banff National Park, Alberta. It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott.^[4] 198 specimens of Pirania are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.38% of the community.^[5]

References

1 2 Botting, J. P. (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.
↑ Botting, J. P. (2004). "An exceptional Caradoc sponge fauna from the Llanfawr Quarries, Central Wales and phylogenetic implications". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . 2 (1): 31–63. Bibcode:2004JSPal...2...31B. doi:10.1017/S147720190300110X. S2CID 83477858.
↑ Van Roy, P.; Orr, P. J.; Botting, J. P.; Muir, L. A.; Vinther, J.; Lefebvre, B.; Hariri, K. E.; Briggs, D. E. G. (2010). "Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type". Nature. 465 (7295): 215–8. Bibcode:2010Natur.465..215V. doi:10.1038/nature09038. PMID 20463737. S2CID 4313285.
↑ Walcott, C. D. (1920). "Cambrian geology and paleontology IV:6—Middle Cambrian Spongiae". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections . 67: 261–364.
↑ 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

"Pirania muricata". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12.

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[Botting2007-1] 1 2 Botting, J. P. (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.

[2] Botting, J. P. (2004). "An exceptional Caradoc sponge fauna from the Llanfawr Quarries, Central Wales and phylogenetic implications". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology . 2 (1): 31–63. Bibcode:2004JSPal...2...31B. doi:10.1017/S147720190300110X. S2CID 83477858.

[DeRoy2010-3] Van Roy, P.; Orr, P. J.; Botting, J. P.; Muir, L. A.; Vinther, J.; Lefebvre, B.; Hariri, K. E.; Briggs, D. E. G. (2010). "Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type". Nature. 465 (7295): 215–8. Bibcode:2010Natur.465..215V. doi:10.1038/nature09038. PMID 20463737. S2CID 4313285.

[Walcott1920MiddleCambrianSpongiae-4] Walcott, C. D. (1920). "Cambrian geology and paleontology IV:6—Middle Cambrian Spongiae". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections . 67: 261–364.

[Caron2006-5] 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.

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