Scheiia tuberosa Tschernyschew and Stepanow 1916 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Streptosclerophorida - Hindiidae

Full reference: T. Tschernyschew and P. Stepanow. 1916. Obercarbonfauna von Konig Oscars und Heibergs Land. Report of the Second Norwegian Arctic Expedition in the "Fram" 1898-1902 34:1-67

Belongs to Scheiia according to J. K. Rigby 1973

See also Finks 1960, Rigby and Terrell 1973, Siedlecka 1970 and Tschernyschew and Stepanow 1916

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Store Björnekap unspecified, König Oscar Land, which is in an Artinskian open shallow subtidal limestone in the Great Bear Cape Formation of Canada

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Canada (15: British Columbia, Nunavut collections), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (4: Texas)

Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence

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