Angulosuspongia sinensis Yang et al. 2017 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Vauxiidae

Full reference: X.-L. Yang, Y.-L. Zhao, L. E. Babcock and J. Peng. 2017. A new vauxiid sponge from the Kaili Biota (Cambrian Stage 5), Guizhou, South China. Geological Magazine

Belongs to Angulosuspongia according to X.-L. Yang et al. 2017

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Holotypa: GTBM17-765a,b; Paratype: GTBM9-3-3613, a skeleton

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Angulosuspongia sinensis (Cambrian of China)

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