Diagoniella
Diagoniella Temporal range:
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Diagoniella hindei fossils | |
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Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Porifera |
Class: | Hexactinellida |
Order: | †Reticulosa |
Genus: | †Diagoniella Walcott, 1920 |
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Diagoniella is a genus of sponge known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.[1][2] 128 specimens of Diagoniella are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.24% of the community.[3]
References[]
- ^ "Diagoniella hindei". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.
- ^ Botting, J. (2007). "'Cambrian' demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: Insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges". Geobios. 40 (6): 737–748. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2007.02.006.
- ^ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022.
Categories:
- Burgess Shale fossils
- Hexactinellida genera
- Prehistoric sponge genera
- Fossil taxa described in 1920
- Cambrian genus extinctions
- Wheeler Shale
- Prehistoric sponge stubs