Plocoscyphia maaki Schrammen 1912 (glass sponge)

Hexactinellida - Lychniscosa - Callodictyonidae

Full reference: A. Schrammen. 1912. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida) [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida)]. Palaeontographica, Supplement 5:176-385

Belongs to Plocoscyphia according to A. Schrammen 1912

Sister taxa: Plocoscyphia centuncula, Plocoscyphia communis, Plocoscyphia fenestrata, Plocoscyphia gaultina

Type specimen: Its type locality is Halberstadt, which is in a Turonian offshore shelf marl in the "Scaphiten-Pläner" Formation of Germany

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Halberstadt

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