Crumillospongia is a genus of middle Cambrian sponges known from the Burgess Shale and other localities from the Lower and Middle Cambrian.[2][3] Its name is derived from the Latin crumilla ("money purse") and spongia ("sponge"), a reflection of its similarity to a small leathery money purse. That is, it has a saclike shape, and its wall has holes of two sizes, with a well-developed internal canal system. [2] 49 specimens of Crumillospongia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.1% of the community.[4]
| Crumillospongia Temporal range: Upper Lower Cambrian - Middle Cambrian
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Order: | †Protomonaxonida |
| Family: | †Hazeliidae |
| Genus: | †Crumillospongia Rigby, 1986[1] |
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References
edit- ^ Rigby, J. K. (1986). "Sponges of the Burgess shale (Middle Cambrian), British Columbia". Palaeontographica Canadiana (2).
- ^ a b Briggs, D. E. G.; Erwin, D. H.; Collier, F. J. (1995), Fossils of the Burgess Shale, Washington: Smithsonian Inst Press, ISBN 1-56098-659-X, OCLC 231793738
- ^ García-Bellido, D. C.; Dies Álvarez, M. E.; Gámez Vintaned, J. A.; Gozalo, R. (2011). "First report of Crumillospongia (Demospongea) from the Cambrian of Europe (Murero biota, Spain)" (PDF). Bulletin of Geosciences: 641–650. doi:10.3140/bull.geosci.1253.641-650&rft.date=2011&rft_id=info:doi/10.3140/bull.geosci.1253&rft.aulast=García-Bellido&rft.aufirst=D. C.&rft.au=Dies Álvarez, M. E.&rft.au=Gámez Vintaned, J. A.&rft.au=Gozalo, R.&rft_id=https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/61397/1/BG_2011_86_3_641.pdf&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Crumillospongia" class="Z3988">
- ^ Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. Bibcode:2006Palai..21..451C. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022. S2CID 53646959.451-65&rft.date=2006-10&rft_id=info:doi/10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R&rft_id=https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:53646959#id-name=S2CID&rft_id=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20173022#id-name=JSTOR&rft_id=info:bibcode/2006Palai..21..451C&rft.aulast=Caron&rft.aufirst=Jean-Bernard&rft.au=Jackson, Donald A.&rfr_id=info:sid/en.wikipedia.org:Crumillospongia" class="Z3988">
External links
edit- "Crumillospongia frondosa". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12. Retrieved 2017-08-09.
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