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Choiaella

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Choiaella
Temporal range: Chengjiang–Llandovery[1]
Choiaella radiata
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongiae
Order: Protomonaxonida
Family: Choiidae
Genus: Choiaella
Rigby & Hou, 1995[2]
Type species
Choiaella radiata
Rigby & Hou, 1995
Species
  • Choiaella radiata Rigby & Hou, 1995
  • Choiaella scotica

Choiaella is an extinct genus of sea sponge ranging from the Chengjiang lagerstatten until the Lower Silurian.[1]

It is closely related to the genera Choia and Allantospongia, which the Chengjiang fauna species C. radiata coexisted sympatrically with.

The species C. scotica is known from the Caradoc-aged fine sandstone of Wallace's Cast, Southern Uplands of Scotland.[1]

The Silurian species has not been formally named.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Botting, J. (2007). "'Cambrian' demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: Insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges". Geobios. 40 (6): 737–748. Bibcode:2007Geobi..40..737B. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2007.02.006.
  2. ^ Rigby, J. K.; Hou, X.-G. (1995). "Lower Cambrian demosponges and hexactinellid sponges from Yunnan, China". Journal of Paleontology. 69 (6): 1009–1019. Bibcode:1995JPal...69.1009R. doi:10.1017/S0022336000037999. JSTOR 1306406. S2CID 133542014.