Aulocopella dactylos Rigby and Bayer 1971 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Lithistida - Streptosolenidae

Full reference: J. K. Rigby and T. N. Bayer. 1971. Sponges of the Ordovician Maquoketa Formation in Minnesota and Iowa. Journal of Paleontology 45(4):608-627

Belongs to Aulocopella according to J. K. Rigby and T. N. Bayer 1971

Sister taxa: Aulocopella probolos, Aulocopella scelidos, Aulocopella winnipegensis

Type specimen: Its type locality is Clermont, which is in an Edenian/Maysvillian marine horizon in the Scales Shale Formation of Iowa

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Clermont

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