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Cribrospongia

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Cribrospongia
Temporal range: 247.2–93.5 Ma
Cribrospongia clathrata at Teylers Museum, Haarlem
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Hexactinellida
Order: Sceptrulophora
Family: Cribrospongiidae
Genus: Cribrospongia
d'Orbigny, 1849
Species
  • Cribrospongia clathrata d'Orbigny, 1849
  • Cribrospongia elegans (Schrammen, 1937), syn. Tremadictyon elegans
  • Cribrospongia reticulata (Goldfuss, 1826)
  • Tremadictyon roemeri Assmann, 1937
Synonyms
  • Tremadictyon Zittel, 1877

Cribrospongia is an extinct genus of prehistoric sponges in the family Cribrospongiidae. The species C. elegans is from the Jurassic period and has been found in Germany.

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References

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  • Cours élémentaire de paléontologie et de géologie stratigraphiques. A d'Orbigny, 1849
  • Note sur les polypiers fossiles. A d'Orbigny, 1849
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  • "Cribrospongia" at the Encyclopedia of Life
  • "Cribrospongia". Paleobiology Database.