1-2 OF 2 RESULTS FOR

Estrellaspongia irregulara

Results shown limited to content with bounding coordinates.
Save search
Follow your search
Access your saved searches in your account
Would you like to receive an alert when new items match your search?
Close Modal
Sort by
Journal Article

DEVONIAN AND CARBONIFEROUS SPONGES FROM SPAIN Available to Purchase

DIEGO C. GARCÍA-BELLIDO, J. KEITH RIGBY
Published: 01 May 2004
Journal of Paleontology (2004) 78 (3): 431–455.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1666/0022-3360(2004)078<0431:DACSFS>2.0.CO;2
... and which lasted throughout the Devonian. Lower Carboniferous sponges have been collected from southern Spain. The hexactinellid Estrellaspongia irregulara new genus and species, is a thick-walled, basin-shaped pelicaspongiid with irregular, branched, inhalant canals and coarser irregular canals...
FIGURES
First thumbnail for: DEVONIAN AND CARBONIFEROUS SPONGES FROM SPAIN
Second thumbnail for: DEVONIAN AND CARBONIFEROUS SPONGES FROM SPAIN
Third thumbnail for: DEVONIAN AND CARBONIFEROUS SPONGES FROM SPAIN
View PDF for article title, DEVONIAN AND CARBONIFEROUS SPONGES FROM SPAIN
Purchase
Add to Citation Manager for DEVONIAN AND CARBONIFEROUS SPONGES FROM SPAIN
Image
Figure9—Estrellaspongia irregulara n. gen. and sp., Sierra de la Estrella, Córdoba; Sierra del Castillo Unit, Asbian/Brigantian, late Viséan, Lower Carboniferous. 1, 98SSEC–1, holotype, apical view, showing the central position of the osculum, infilled with sediment; 2, 98SSEC–1, holotype, transverse section at midheight, showing the intricate net of canals that make up the canal system; 3, 98SSEC–1, holotype, lateral view, with osculum at the top; 4, 98SSEC–2, paratype, showing the sinuous canal system and the matrix-filled spongocoel; 5, 98SSEC–1, holotype, detail of the external (dermal) wall, with pores and spicules; 6, 98SSEC–1, holotype, detail of the hexactines of the dermal layer. These spicules have been obliquely eroded, losing their hexaradial symmetry; 7, 98SSEC–1, holotype, detail of the dermal layer with some hexactines. Scale bar: 1–4, 50 mm; 5, 25 mm; 6, 7, 5 mm.

Figure 9 — Estrellaspongia irregulara n. gen. and sp., Sierra de la Estre... Available to Purchase

Published: 01 May 2004
Figure 9 — Estrellaspongia irregulara n. gen. and sp., Sierra de la Estrella, Córdoba; Sierra del Castillo Unit, Asbian/Brigantian, late Viséan, Lower Carboniferous. 1, 98SSEC–1, holotype, apical view, showing the central position of the osculum, infilled with sediment; 2, 98SSEC–1