Eurete periphragelloides Reid 1961 (glass sponge)

Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Euretidae

Full reference: R. E. H. Reid. 1961. A monograph of the Upper Cretaceous Hexactinellida of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, part III. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 27-48

Belongs to Eurete according to R. E. H. Reid 1961

Sister taxa: Eurete (Aulodomus), Eurete columnare, Eurete farreoides, Eurete formosum, Eurete fragilis, Eurete halli, Eurete labyrinthica, Eurete lithodendron, Eurete maeandrina, Eurete mantelli, Eurete rauffi, Eurete setosum, Eurete smithi, Eurete vaceleti

Type specimen: Its type locality is Hill End Farm, Hitch Wood, which is in a Turonian offshore chalk in the Lewes Nodular Chalk Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (2 collections)

Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence

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