Polysiphon Girty 1908 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Hadromerida - Polysiphonidae

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1908. The Guadalupian fauna. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 58:1-651

Parent taxon: Polysiphonidae according to B. Senowbari-Daryan and J. K. Rigby 2011

See also Girty 1908 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Arbusculana, Zardinia

Subtaxa: Polysiphon mirabilis

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Type: Polysiphon mirabilis

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at USGS 2930 green, Pine Spring, Guadalupe Mountains (Permian of Texas)

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