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An upper Miocene hexactinellid sponge from the Puente Shale, Orange County, California

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

J. Keith Rigby  and
Yvonne Albi
J. Keith Rigby
Affiliation:
Room 210 Page School, Department of Geology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602
Yvonne Albi
Affiliation:
7001 Vista Del Mar Lane, Playa del Rey, California 90293
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Abstract

Well-preserved, laterally flattened, farreid hexactinellid sponges of the new species Farrea rugosa have been recently discovered in the upper Miocene Puente Shale in the Peralta Hills in southeastern Anaheim, Orange County, California. This is the first farreid sponge reported from the Miocene of California and is one of the few Miocene sponges reported from North America. The cluster is of upward bifurcating, moderately complex sponges in which branches are regularly rugose and skeletons are each a single layer of dictyid net, with aborted proximal and distal rays in the otherwise laterally fused quadruled skeleton of original silica. The sponges occur in pinkish brown sandy siltstone in the limited exposure beneath older alluvium that blankets much of the local area.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 70 , Issue 6 , November 1996 , pp. 908 - 913
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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