Choiaella scotica Beresi et al. 2010 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Protomonaxonida - Choiidae

Full reference: M. S. Beresi, J. P. Botting, and E. N. K. Clarkson. 2010. A new demosponge, Choiaella scotica, from the Caradoc (Ordovician) of Wallace's Cast, Southern Uplands. Scottish Journal of Geology 46:77-84

Belongs to Choiaella according to M. S. Beresi et al. 2010

Sister taxon: Choiaella radiata

Type specimen: NMS G 2008.15.1, a partial skeleton (Nearly complete skeleton of discs and spicules). Its type locality is Wallace's Cast, near Wandel, Southern Uplands, which is in a Caradoc offshore mudstone in the Kirkcolm Formation of the United Kingdom.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Wallace's Cast, near Wandel, Southern Uplands

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