†Microastraeum tenuis Botting 2005 (sponge)
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Heteractinida - Octactinellida - Astraeospongiidae
Full reference: J. P. Botting. 2005. Exceptionally well-preserved Middle Ordovician sponges from the Llandegley Rocks Lagerstätte, Wales. Palaeontology 48(3):577-617
Belongs to Microastraeum according to J. P. Botting 2005
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Its type locality is Llandegley Rocks, which is in a Llanvirn shoreface sandstone in the Builth Volcanic Formation of the United Kingdom
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Llandegley Rocks
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