Diagoniella

Diagoniella hindei
Temporal range: Burgess Shale
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: "Porifera"
Class: Hexactinellida
Order: Reticulosa
Genus: Diagoniella
Species: D. hindei
Binomial name
Diagoniella hindei
Walcott, 1920

Diagoniella is a genus of sponge known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale.[1][2] 128 specimens of Diagoniella are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.24% of the community.[3]

The specific epithet hindei is a tribute to English paleontologist George Jennings Hinde.

References

  1. "Diagoniella hindei". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011.
  2. Botting, J. (2007). "'Cambrian' demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: Insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges". Geobios. 40 (6): 737–748. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2007.02.006.
  3. Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022.


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