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Vauxiidae non det.
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Taxonomy
Demosponge
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera Grant 1836
Class: Demospongea Sollas, 1883
Order: Verongiida
Family: Vauxiidae Walcott 1920
Genus: indet.
Species: indet.
Geological Time Scale
Eon: Phanerozoic
Era: Paleozoic
Period: Cambrian
Sub Period: None
Epoch: Early
International Age: Age 2, "Stage 4"
Stratigraphy
Wulongqing Formation
Provenance
Acquired by: Purchase/Trade
Dimensions
Length: 3 cm
Location
Luquan Yi
Kunming administrative region
Yunnan Province
China
Comments
Taxonomy from Fossilworks,org.
Preliminarily determined by Prof. Dr. Joachim Reitner, Departement of Geobiology, Georg-August-University Göttingen as Vauxiidae (a publication is intended).
References:
Walcott, C. D. (1920). Middle Cambrian Spongiae. Cambrian Geology and Paleontology IV. Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections, 67(6): 261-365.
Luo, C., Zhao, F., & Zeng, H. (2020). The first report of a vauxiid sponge from the Cambrian Chengjiang Biota. Journal of Paleontology, 94(1), 28-33. doi:10.1017/jpa.2019.52
Luo, C., Yang, A., Zhuravlev, A. Y., & Reitner, J. (2021). Vauxiids as descendants of archaeocyaths: a hypothesis. Lethaia, https://doi.org/10.1111/let.12433.
Wei, F., Zhou, Y., Chen, A., Hou, X. and Cong, P. (2021). New vauxiid sponges from the Chengjiang Biota and their evolutionary significance. Journal of the Geological Society, Volume 178, https://doi.org/10.1144/jgs2020-162
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