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Cystothalamia vandegraaffi new species and other Sphinctozoan sponges from the Upper Carboniferous of Spain

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Diego C. García-Bellido ,
Baba Senowbari-Daryan  and
J. Keith Rigby
Diego C. García-Bellido
Affiliation:
1Depto. de Paleontología (CSIC-UCM), Facultad de Ciencias Geológicas, Universidad Complutense, 28040 Madrid, Spain,
Baba Senowbari-Daryan
Affiliation:
2Institut für Paläontologie, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Loewenichstrasse 28, D-91054 Erlangen, Germany,
J. Keith Rigby
Affiliation:
3Department of Geology, Brigham Young University, S-389 Eyring Science Center, Provo, Utah 84602-4606,
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Abstract

New and previously described “Sphinctozoan” taxa have been collected from six different localities in northern Spain, all of them dated as Late Carboniferous, from Moskovian to Kasimovian in age. The sphinctozoans in the collection are all assigned to the Demospongiae: a new species of polyglomerate type, Cystothalamia vandegraaffi n. sp., and known species Amblysiphonella barroisi Steinmann, 1882, Amblysiphonella carbonaria (Steinmann, 1882), Discosiphonella mammilosa (King, 1943), Discosiphonella maior (Van de Graaff, 1969), and Sollasia ostiolata Steinmann, 1882. Some of these specimens present interesting paleoecological features, such as the use of a piece of calcareous algae as a hard substrate in a soft muddy bottom and a possible branching pattern determined by photophilic or negative geotaxic growth.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 78 , Issue 6 , November 2004 , pp. 1037 - 1055
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[Present address: Department of Palaeobiology, Royal Ontario Museum, 100 Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C6, Canada, <DiegoGBC@rom.on.ca>]

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