Hexactinellida - Lyssacinosa - Toomeyospongiidae
Full reference: J. K. Rigby and G. L. Bell. 2005. A new hexactinellid sponge from the Reef Trial Member of the Upper Guadalupian Bell Canyon Formation, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas. Journal of Paleontology 79(1):200-204
Belongs to Toomeyospongia according to J. K. Rigby et al. 2007
See also Rigby and Bell 2005
Sister taxa: Toomeyospongia apachensis, Toomeyospongia modica
Type specimen: GUMO 5249. Its type locality is GUMO GEO 00006, below Lower Scaphopod Bed, Patterson Hills, which is in a Capitanian slope wackestone in the Bell Canyon Formation of Texas.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (2: Texas collections)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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