Sponges are primitive metazoan organisms which occur since the late Proterozoic. The oldest sponge remains (hexactinellids) are from a shallow marine carbonate facies of the late Sinian Shibantan Member (China). From the Tommotian (Sansha, China) protospongiid and rossellimorph hexactinellids were discovered in shallow marine silicified rocks. The middle part of this section consists of silty shales with entirely preserved hexactinellid sponges: Sanshadictya, Hyalosinica, Solactinella, Triticispongia, Hunanospongia. The hexactinellids typically are soft bottom dwellers, which sometimes grow on and form in situ spiculites (spicule mats). The sponges from the Chengjiang deposits of Atdabanian age, which show a rossellimorph spicule orga...
An association of silicified spicules of hexactinellid sponges was collected from Silurian sandstone...
[[abstract]]Sponge remains have been identified in the Early Vendian Doushantuo phosphate deposit in...
An extraordinarily well preserved, 600-million-year (Myr)-old, three-dimensionally phosphatized foss...
p. 129-130Most chambered sponges (the polyphyletic group of "Sphinctozoa") are hypercalcified types a...
Abundant and well-preserved assemblages of disarticulated sponge spicules occur in Middle and Late C...
Sponges (Porifera), as one of the earliest-branching animal phyla, are crucial for understanding ear...
International audienceSponges (Porifera), as one of the earliest-branching animal phyla, are crucial...
Sponges (Porifera), as one of the earliest-branching animal phyla, are crucial for understanding ear...
A Mississippian hexactinellid sponge from the western Argentina improves the extremely poor late Pal...
Early fossil sponges offer a direct window onto the evolutionary emergence of animals, but insights ...
Molecular clock and the fossil record at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary indicate that animals pro...
Evidence concerning the ecology of American Palaeozoic sponges, excluding hexactinellids and incerta...
The relationships of the sponge classes are controversial, particularly between the calcareous and s...
International audienceSponges (phylum Porifera) had been considered as an enigmatic phylum, prior to...
The relationships of the sponge classes are controversial, particularly between the calcareous and s...
An association of silicified spicules of hexactinellid sponges was collected from Silurian sandstone...
[[abstract]]Sponge remains have been identified in the Early Vendian Doushantuo phosphate deposit in...
An extraordinarily well preserved, 600-million-year (Myr)-old, three-dimensionally phosphatized foss...
p. 129-130Most chambered sponges (the polyphyletic group of "Sphinctozoa") are hypercalcified types a...
Abundant and well-preserved assemblages of disarticulated sponge spicules occur in Middle and Late C...
Sponges (Porifera), as one of the earliest-branching animal phyla, are crucial for understanding ear...
International audienceSponges (Porifera), as one of the earliest-branching animal phyla, are crucial...
Sponges (Porifera), as one of the earliest-branching animal phyla, are crucial for understanding ear...
A Mississippian hexactinellid sponge from the western Argentina improves the extremely poor late Pal...
Early fossil sponges offer a direct window onto the evolutionary emergence of animals, but insights ...
Molecular clock and the fossil record at the Precambrian-Cambrian boundary indicate that animals pro...
Evidence concerning the ecology of American Palaeozoic sponges, excluding hexactinellids and incerta...
The relationships of the sponge classes are controversial, particularly between the calcareous and s...
International audienceSponges (phylum Porifera) had been considered as an enigmatic phylum, prior to...
The relationships of the sponge classes are controversial, particularly between the calcareous and s...
An association of silicified spicules of hexactinellid sponges was collected from Silurian sandstone...
[[abstract]]Sponge remains have been identified in the Early Vendian Doushantuo phosphate deposit in...
An extraordinarily well preserved, 600-million-year (Myr)-old, three-dimensionally phosphatized foss...