Daharella pattersonia Rigby and Bell 2006 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Agelasida - Auriculospongiidae

Full reference: J. K. Rigby and G. L. Bell. 2006. Sponges from the Reef Trail Member of the Upper Guadalupian (Permian) Bell Canyon Formation, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 80(5):1-42

Belongs to Daharella according to J. K. Rigby and G. L. Bell 2006

Sister taxa: Daharella crassa, Daharella micella, Daharella palmata, Daharella ramosa, Daharella triassica

Type specimen: GUMO 15155. Its type locality is GUMO GEO 00006, Upper Scaphopod Bed, Patterson Hills, which is in a Capitanian slope rudstone/packstone in the Bell Canyon Formation of Texas.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at GUMO GEO 00006, Upper Scaphopod Bed, Patterson Hills

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