Directory of Sponges Resources

This category is for any website which deals specifically with the fossil record of sponges.

Resources in This Category

Brachiospongia

http://www.paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=fossil_gallery&sectionnav=detail&submission_id=791&taxon_id=66&state_id=&period_id=&assemblage_id=&last_section=search
Photograph of this fossil sponge from the Ordovician in Kentucky.
Choia utahensis

http://www.paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=fossil_gallery&sectionnav=detail&submission_id=1405&taxon_id=66&state_id=&period_id=&assemblage_id=&last_section=search
Fossil sponges from the Cambrian in Utah showing the spicules of which the skeleton is composed.
Cretaceous Sponges

http://www.cretaceous.de/
Documentation and systematic description of fossil Cretaceous sponges (porifera) from the Campanian of Misburg and Höver, Germany.
Pemmatites sp.

http://www.lakeneosho.org/Russia/Page20.html
Photographs of several complete fossil sponges.
Siphonia

http://www.cretaceous.de/Siphonia.html
Photographs and information on Siphonia subglobosa and Siphonia tubulosa and some photomicrographs showing typical tetraclones and one dermal dichotriaene of Siphonia tubulosa.
Uphantaenia chemungensis

http://www.paleoportal.org/index.php?globalnav=fossil_gallery&sectionnav=detail&submission_id=1362&taxon_id=66&state_id=&period_id=&assemblage_id=&last_section=search
Image of part of a sponge from the Devonian in New York.

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