Multispongia aspera Carrera 2006 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Lithistida - Anthaspidellidae

Full reference: M. G. Carrera. 2006. The new genus Multispongia (Porifera) from the Lower Ordovician limestones of the Argentine Precordillera. Ameghiniana 43(2):493-498

Belongs to Multispongia according to M. G. Carrera 2006

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Las Aguaditas, Jachal, upper San Juan Formation, which is in a Llanvirn open shallow subtidal wackestone/lime mudstone in the San Juan Formation of Argentina

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Las Aguaditas, Jachal, upper San Juan Formation

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