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Raanespongia monilis

Demospongiae - Astylospongiidae

Taxonomy
Raanespongia monilis was named by Rigby and Terrell (1973). Its type specimen is GSC 32716 and is a 3D body fossil. Its type locality is GSC C-10756, Blind Fjord, Ellesmere Island, which is in an Artinskian carbonate limestone in the Great Bear Cape Formation of Canada. It is the type species of Raanespongia.

Synonymy list
YearName and author
1973Raanespongia monilis Rigby and Terrell p. 1438 figs. 11,15-17

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumPoriferaGrant 1836
classDemospongiae(Sollas 1875)
subclassLithistida(Schmidt 1870)
RankNameAuthor
suborderOrchocladinaRauff 1895
familyAstylospongiidaeZittel 1877
genusRaanespongia
speciesmonilis

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Raanespongia monilis Rigby and Terrell 1973
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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available