Crumillospongia
Appearance
Crumillospongia Temporal range: Upper Lower Cambrian - Middle Cambrian
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Porifera |
Class: | Demospongiae |
Order: | †Protomonaxonida |
Family: | †Hazeliidae |
Genus: | †Crumillospongia Rigby, 1986[1] |
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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
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.