Latest Imageshttps://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/category/35-sponges/Latest ImagesenThalamocyathus trachealishttps://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/65235-thalamocyathus-trachealis/ Thalamocyathus trachealis

]]>65235Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:29:57 +0000Ethmocyathus lineatushttps://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/65234-ethmocyathus-lineatus/ Ethmocyathus lineatus, a very common archaeocyathid at the site. Thank you to @Tidgy's Dad for helping me in the research and identification of this one. A truly deserving recipient of his recently acquired Outstanding Member award! 

Ethmocyathus lineatus

]]>65234Tue, 07 Oct 2025 07:27:14 +0000Visual Aid 2: Archaeocyathid Paleoenvironmenthttps://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/65206-visual-aid-2-archaeocyathid-paleoenvironment/ A reconstruction of what the site would have looked like 528 million years ago. It was a shallow sea, with archaeocyathans, demosponges, and probably algal mats.

Visual Aid 2: Archaeocyathid Paleoenvironment

]]>65206Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:53:15 +0000Helpful Visual 1https://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/65205-helpful-visual-1/ Helpful Visual 1

]]>65205Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:45:05 +0000Sigmofungia flindersi from Ikara-Flinders National Parkhttps://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/65204-sigmofungia-flindersi-from-ikara-flinders-national-park/ A very special specimen, and the only one in here that is not self collected: a Sigmofungia flindersi from the location where the holotype was described, deep within the ethereal Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park. It's hard to describe this place, as it is very unique. This specimen was collected long ago, before the protective measures. 

 

Lower Cambrian  (530-509 MYA [Terreneuvian Epoch-Series 2)

Wilkawillina Archaeocyatha Geological Site

Wilkawillina Limestone (Type section), Hawker Group

Ikara-Flinders Ranges National Park

Sigmofungia flindersi from Ikara-Flinders National Park

]]>65204Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:55:26 +0000Sigmofungia flindersihttps://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/65203-sigmofungia-flindersi/ Sigmofungia flindersi

]]>65203Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:29:34 +0000Davidicyathus racemiferushttps://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/65202-davidicyathus-racemiferus/ Davidicyathus racemiferus

]]>65202Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:29:32 +0000Pycnoidocyathus synapticulosushttps://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/65201-pycnoidocyathus-synapticulosus/ As the name suggests, it has synapticulae. It also has a horrid name that "only a mother could love". :P

Seriously though, what was Taylor (1910) thinking?

Pycnoidocyathus synapticulosus

]]>65201Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:26:12 +0000Copleicyathus confertushttps://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/65200-copleicyathus-confertus/ This one is very faded and hard to see. it is named after the nearby village of Copley. 

Copleicyathus confertus

]]>65200Sat, 04 Oct 2025 09:30:02 +0000Polycoscinus contortushttps://www.thefossilforum.com/gallery/image/65199-polycoscinus-contortus/ Polycoscinus contortus

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