Pirania

not to be confused with Piranha
Pirania
Temporal range: Burgess Shale–Middle Ordovician[1]
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Genus: Pirania

Pirania is a genus of sponge known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and the Ordovician Fezouata formation.[2] 198 specimens of Pirania are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.38% of the community.[3]

References

  1. Botting, J. (2007). "'Cambrian' demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: Insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges". Geobios. 40 (6): 737–748. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2007.02.006.
  2. Van Roy, P.; Orr, P. J.; Botting, J. P.; Muir, L. A.; Vinther, J.; Lefebvre, B.; Hariri, K. E.; Briggs, D. E. G. (2010). "Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type". Nature. 465 (7295): 215–8. Bibcode:2010Natur.465..215V. doi:10.1038/nature09038. PMID 20463737.
  3. Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022.
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