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![Figure5—Coelocladia spinosaGirty, 1908. 1, Vergaño, Palencia; Vergaño Formation, late Moscovian, Upper Carboniferous; 2–9, Demués, Asturias (northwestern Spain); Demués Formation late Moscovian-Kasimovian, Upper Carboniferous. 1, 99VR3–100, longest specimen; 2, 98DM25–24, whitened specimen, one of the widest in the collection; 3, 98DM30–19, whitened specimen showing a slightly conical morphology; 4, 98DM35– 7, SEM photograph of the ostia-covered dermal wall; 5, 98DM35–7, SEM photograph of details of some conical ostia; 6, 98DM35–9, transverse thin section showing the radial arrangement of the exhalant canals and their extension into the body wall; 7, 98DM35–9, longitudinal thin section of specimen with two growth episodes, defined by a thickened dermal wall which grew inwardly to meet the spongocoel. Two prominent tubular exaules can be recognized in the upper right side. The arrows indicate the detailed areas shown in 8 and 9; 8, 98DM35–9, detail of the longitudinal thin section, showing the “needles” (axial canals of the spicules) integrated in the massive skeleton and some canals of the aquiferous system; 9, 98DM35–9, detail of the longitudinal thin section showing the wall that defines the end of a growth pulse and the beginning of a new pulse. Scale: 1, 2, bar 10 mm; 4, 5, 8, 9, bar 1 mm; 3, 6, 7, bar 0.5 mm.]()
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![Figure6—Photographs of specimens of Heliospongia excavataKing, 1933, Coelocladia spinosa Girty, 1908, and Luterospongia texana n. gen. and sp. 1–6,Heliospongia excavataKing, 1933, from Localities 1 and 3, from the Devil's Den Limestone and Jasper Creek Shale; 1, side view of large branched specimen showing general growth form of the species and the ostia of inhalant canals particularly well exposed in the upper part, USNM 480664, Locality 1, ×0.66; 2, stem fragment with several branch bases, and a short vertical section through the upper part, showing the central spongocoel, exhalant ostia in the gastral wall, and vertical sections through the wall where the arcuate, porous skeletal structure of the fiber layers is exposed, USNM 480665, Locality 1, ×1; 3, photomicrograph of the transverse section of the base of USNM 480664, showing the single central spongocoel, and inhalant canals near the dermal margin, Locality 1, ×1; 4, 5, USNM 480666, Locality 1; 4, vertical medial section through a stem where much of the skeletal detail has been lost by replacement, but several arched skeletal fibers show in the lower part, and are cross-connected by vertical to upward-and-outward fibers that outline pores or canals of two sizes that pierce the skeleton; arrow indicates position of Figure 11.1, ×1; 5, photomicrograph showing nature of the spicule fibers of the skeleton shown in lower right part of figure 4, ×5; 6, tip of a branch with arcuate canals and fine spicules in skeletal tufts, USNM 480667, Locality 3, ×1. 7–11,Coelocladia spinosa Girty, 1908, from the uppermost Jasper Creek Shale at Locality 1; 7, side view of one of the larger specimens in the collection showing the general form and the short tubular dermal spines of inhalant ostia characteristic of the species, USNM 480668, ×2; 8, side view of smaller specimen with pronounced tubular dermal spines of the inhalant canal system, and with narrow bases of short broken branches on the right, USNM 480672, ×2; 9, photomicrograph of tubular inhalant canals in the dermal surface of the lower part of USNM 480669, ×5; 10, 11, Figured specimen, USNM 480670, 10, longitudinal section with axial spongocoel filled with sediment and vertical walls with a dense dermal layer showing outer downward and inward, rimmed, inhalant canals and upward and inward exhalant canals as interruptions in the arched curved spiculofibers of the skeletal net, ×4; 11, transverse section with sediment-filled spongocoel surrounded by walls with complex spiculofiber network variously interrupted by inhalant and exhalant canals, ×4; 12–15,Luterospongia texana n. gen. and sp., from the Jasper Creek Shale, Locality 3, 12–14, holotype, USNM 480673, 12, basal view of shallow, gently bowl-shaped, holotype, indented with small ostia of three sizes of canals in the dermal surface; arrow indicates center of Figure 6.15, ×1; 13, view of the holotype from above showing the large spongocoel, with its gently and irregularly indented oscular margin, ×1; 14, view of the holotype from the side showing the gently curved base and the nearly horizontal gastral margin at the top, ×1; 15, detail of part of the dermal layer showing ostia of abundant small- and medium-sized canals, and more rare larger canals, ×5]()
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Figure 5 — Coelocladia spinosa Girty, 1908 . 1, Vergaño, Palencia; Ver... Available to Purchase
Published: 01 May 2004
Figure 5 — Coelocladia spinosa Girty, 1908 . 1, Vergaño, Palencia; Vergaño Formation, late Moscovian, Upper Carboniferous; 2 – 9, Demués, Asturias (northwestern Spain); Demués Formation late Moscovian-Kasimovian, Upper Carboniferous. 1, 99VR3–100, longest specimen; 2, 98DM25–24
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Pennsylvanian Sponges from the Graford Formation, Wise County, Texas Available to Purchase
Journal: Journal of Paleontology
Publisher: Paleontological Society
Published: 01 May 2008
Journal of Paleontology (2008) 82 (3): 492–510.
... Creek Shale (=upper Lake Bridgeport Shale) and the overlying Devil's Den Limestone of the Graford Formation, of Late Pennsylvanian Missourian age. The Demospongea protomonaxonids Heliospongia excavata King, 1933 , and Coelocladia spinosa Girty, 1908 are represented in the studied collections by several...
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DEVONIAN AND CARBONIFEROUS SPONGES FROM SPAIN Available to Purchase
Journal: Journal of Paleontology
Publisher: Paleontological Society
Published: 01 May 2004
Journal of Paleontology (2004) 78 (3): 431–455.
...Figure 5 — Coelocladia spinosa Girty, 1908 . 1, Vergaño, Palencia; Vergaño Formation, late Moscovian, Upper Carboniferous; 2 – 9, Demués, Asturias (northwestern Spain); Demués Formation late Moscovian-Kasimovian, Upper Carboniferous. 1, 99VR3–100, longest specimen; 2, 98DM25–24...
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Figure 6 —Photographs of specimens of Heliospongia excavata King, 1933 ,... Available to Purchase
Published: 01 May 2008
Figure 6 —Photographs of specimens of Heliospongia excavata King, 1933 , Coelocladia spinosa Girty, 1908, and Luterospongia texana n. gen. and sp. 1–6, Heliospongia excavata King, 1933 , from Localities 1 and 3, from the Devil's Den Limestone and Jasper Creek Shale; 1, side view
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CYSTOTHALAMIA VANDEGRAAFFI NEW SPECIES AND OTHER SPHINCTOZOAN SPONGES FROM THE UPPER CARBONIFEROUS OF SPAIN Available to Purchase
Journal: Journal of Paleontology
Publisher: Paleontological Society
Published: 01 November 2004
Journal of Paleontology (2004) 78 (6): 1037–1055.
... and continental remains: foraminifera, sponges (including nonsphinctozoan demosponges: Coelocladia spinosa Girty, 1908 and Haplistion Young and Young, 1877 , and hexactinellids: Stioderma perforata García-Bellido and Rigby, 2004 ), corals, gastropods, bivalves, brachiopods, and a diverse flora ( Wagner et...
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