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Sollasiella reticulata

Demospongiae - Agelasida - Girtyocoeliidae

Taxonomy
Sollasiella reticulata was named by Rigby and Bell (2006) [Holotype at Guadalupe Mountains National Park]. Its type specimen is GUMO 15113 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GUMO GEO 00006, Upper Scaphopod Bed, Patterson Hills, which is in a Capitanian slope rudstone/packstone in the Bell Canyon Formation of Texas. It is the type species of Sollasiella.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2006Sollasiella reticulata Rigby and Bell p. 7 figs. 4.11, 4.12

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumPoriferaGrant 1836
classDemospongiae(Sollas 1875)
orderAgelasidaVerrill 1907
RankNameAuthor
familyGirtyocoeliidae
genusSollasiella
speciesreticulata

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

†Sollasiella reticulata Rigby and Bell 2006
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yeso
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: suspension feedero
Vision: blindc
Reproduction: oviparouso
Created: 2007-09-07 05:16:14
Modified: 2009-05-09 20:07:15
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Kiessling 2004, Whittington et al. 1997

Age range: Capitanian or 264.28000 to 259.51000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Capitanian264.28 - 259.51USA (Texas) Sollasiella reticulata (type locality: 75969)