†Aulocopella dactylos Rigby and Bayer 1971 (demosponge)
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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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