Demospongiae - Lithistida - Anthracosyconidae
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 Dactylites according to J. K. Rigby and G. L. Bell 2006
Sister taxa: Dactylites magna, Dactylites micropora, Dactylites subdigitatus
Type specimen: GUMO 5250m. 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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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