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Extinct order of sponges
Protomonaxonida is an extinct order of
sea sponges . It is a
paraphyletic group gathering the most ancient species from the
Burgess Shale to modern sponges.
Families and genera
Family †
Choiidae Laubenfels, 1925
Family †
Halichondritidae Rigby, 1986
[5]
Family †
Hamptoniidae De Laubenfels, 1955
Family †
Hazeliidae De Laubenfels, 1955
Family †
Leptomitidae De Laubenfels, 1955
Genus †
Lobatospongia Rigby et al., 2007
Family †
Piraniidae De Laubenfels, 1955
Family †
Takakkawiidae De Laubenfels, 1955
Family †
Ulospongiellidae Rigby & Collins, 2004
[7]
Family †
Wapkiidae De Laubenfels, 1955
The following families from the order
Hadromerida are also sometimes placed in Protomonaxonida:
References
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b Botting, Joseph P.; Brayard, Arnaud; the Paris Biota Team (2019). "A late-surviving Triassic protomonaxonid sponge from the Paris Biota (Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA)". Geobios . 54 : 5–11.
Bibcode :
2019Geobi..54....5B .
doi :
10.1016/j.geobios.2019.04.006 .
S2CID
146559079 .
^ Porifera (Demospongea, Hexactinellida, Heteractinida, Calcarea). Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part E, Revised E(3), R. M. Finks, R. E. H. Reid, and J. K. Rigby. 2004, pages 1-872
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b Rigby, J. K.; Hou, X.-G. (1995). "Lower Cambrian demosponges and hexactinellid sponges from Yunnan, China".
Journal of Paleontology . 69 (6): 1009–1019.
doi :
10.1017/S0022336000037999 .
JSTOR
1306406 .
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g Walcott, C. D. (1920).
"Cambrian geology and paleontology IV:6—Middle Cambrian Spongiae" .
Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections . 67 : 261–364.
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d Rigby, J. K. (1986). "Sponges of the Burgess shale (Middle Cambrian), British Columbia". Palaeontographica Canadiana (2).
^ Rigby, J. K.; von Bitter, P. (2005). "Sponges and associated fossils from the Pennsylvanian Carbondale Formation of northwestern Illinois".
Journal of Paleontology . 79 (3): 460–468.
doi :
10.1666/0022-3360(2005)079<0460:SAAFFT>2.0.CO;2 .
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d Rigby, J. K.; Collins, D. (2004). "Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and Stephen Formations, British Columbia". ROM contributions in science . 1 .
ISBN
0-88854-443-X .
ISSN
1710-7768 .
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