Eiffelia

Eiffelia
Temporal range: Burgess Shale - Early Pennsylvanian[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Porifera
Stem group:Hexactinellida
Informal group:†"Heteractinida"
Family:†Eiffelidae
Genus:†Eiffelia

Eiffelia is a genus of sponges known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale. 60 specimens of Eiffelia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.11% of the community.[2] It belongs in the Hexactinellid stem group.[3]

References

  1. ↑ 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.
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Botting, J. P.; Butterfield, N. J.; Valentine, J. W. (2005). "Reconstructing early sponge relationships by using the Burgess Shale fossil Eiffelia globosa, Walcott". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 102 (5): 1554–1559. doi:10.1073/pnas.0405867102. JSTOR 3374469. PMC 547825. PMID 15665105.


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