Crumillospongia

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Crumillospongia
Temporal range: Upper Lower Cambrian - Middle Cambrian
Scientific classification Edit this 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. biporosa Rigby, 1986

Crumillospongia is a

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).
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