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Actinocoelia maeandrina ✝
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| Rank | species (PBDB) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxonomy (PBDB) | Life : Animalia : Porifera : Demospongea : Lithistida : Chiastoclonellidae : Actinocoelia : Actinocoelia maeandrina | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Status (PBDB) | extinct | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taxon Size (PBDB) | 1 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| First Recorded Appearance | 279 - 272 Ma Permian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Last Recorded Appearance | 260 - 254 Ma Permian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Environment | marine (based on Lithistida) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Motility | stationary, attached (based on Lithistida) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Diet | suspension feeder (based on Lithistida) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Taphonomy | silica (based on Lithistida) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Primary Reference (PBDB) | R. M. Finks. 1960. Late Paleozoic sponge faunas of the Texas region: The siliceous sponges. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 120(1):1-160 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Synonymy List
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| 1960 | Actinocoelia maeandrina Finks p. 70 figs. Pl 16, figs 4-9; pl 17, figs 1,2; pl 19, figs 8-10; text-figs 36-38 |
| 1961 | Actinocoelia maeandrina Finks et al. fig. 2 |
References
Data courtesy of: PBDB: The Paleobiology Database, Creative Commons CC-BY licenced. , GBIF: the Global Biodiversity Information Facility, various licences, iDigBio, various licences, and EOL: The Encyclopedia of Life (Open Data Public Domain). Because fossils are made of minerals too!
