Stylothalamia columnaris Le Maitre 1935 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Verticillitida - Verticillitidae

Alternative combination: Stromatomorpha columnaris

Synonym: Stylothalamia dehmi Ott 1967

Belongs to Stylothalamia according to B. Senowbari-Daryan and H. Hamadani 1999

See also Schroeder 1984 and Senowbari-Daryan 1990

Sister taxa: Stylothalamia eleganta, Stylothalamia hambastensis, Stylothalamia hydriotica, Stylothalamia permica, Stylothalamia polysiphonata

Type specimens:

  • Stylothalamia columnaris: GFCL 3002. Its type locality is Piste from Ain Kahla to Ain Leuh, which is in a Pliensbachian carbonate limestone in Morocco.
  • Stylothalamia dehmi:

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Jurassic of Italy (3 collections), Morocco (1), Peru (1)

• Triassic of Austria (2), Greece (1), Hungary (2), Iran (3), Japan (1), Oman (1), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (2), Turkey (1)

Total: 20 collections including 23 occurrences

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