†Gabelia intermedia Rigby and Maher 1995 (glass sponge)
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Hexactinellida - Reticulosa - Protospongiidae
Full reference: J. K. Rigby and B. J. Maher. 1995. Age of the hexactinellid beds of the Roberts Mountains Formation, Snake Mountains, Nevada, and additions to the Silurian sponge fauna. Journal of Paleontology 69(6):1020-1029
Belongs to Gabelia according to J. K. Rigby and B. J. Maher 1995
Sister taxon: Gabelia pedunculus
Type specimen: Its type locality is Loomis Creek, Snake Mountains, which is in a Ludlow marginal marine siltstone in the Roberts Mountains Formation of Nevada
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Loomis Creek, Snake Mountains
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