Vadosifistula Botting 2005 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Dictyoceratida - Dysideidae

Full reference: J. P. Botting. 2005. Exceptionally well-preserved Middle Ordovician sponges from the Llandegley Rocks Lagerstätte, Wales. Palaeontology 48(3):577-617

Parent taxon: Dysideidae according to J. P. Botting 2005

Sister taxa: Dysidea, Miritubus, Ordinisabulo, Spongeliomorpha, Spongelites

Subtaxa: Vadosifistula milvus

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Type: Vadosifistula milvus

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Llandegley Rocks (Ordovician of the United Kingdom)

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