†Eiffelospongia hirsuta Rigby and Collins 2004 (sponge)
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Heteractinida - Octactinellida - Eiffeliidae
Full reference: J. K. Rigby and D. Collins. 2004. Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and Stephen Formations, British Columbia. Royal Ontario Museum Contributions in Science 1:1-155
Belongs to Eiffelospongia according to J. K. Rigby and D. Collins 2004
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Its type locality is 14s. Trilobite Bed, Mount Stephen, which is in a Delamaran deep-water shale in the Burgess Shale Formation of Canada.
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at 14s. Trilobite Bed, Mount Stephen
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