Cystothalamia

Cystothalamia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Demospongiae
Order:	Agelasida
Family:	†Guadalupiidae
Genus:	†Cystothalamia; Girty, 1908

Cystothalamia is an extinct genus of sea sponges in the family Guadalupiidae that existed during the Permian and Triassic in what is now Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Tajikistan, Croatia, Iran, Italy, Russia, Thailand, Tunisia, the United States (New Mexico and Texas), and Venezuela. It was described by G.H. Girty in 1909, and the type species is Cystothalamia nodulifera.

Species[edit]

Cystothalamia conica
Cystothalamia crassa
Cystothalamia megacysta^[1]
Cystothalamia nana
Cystothalamia nodulifera
Cystothalamia ramosa
Cystothalamia vandegraafi^[2]
Cystothalamia surmaqensis

References[edit]

External links[edit]

Cystothalamia at the Paleobiology Database.

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[Finks,_2010-1] The Sponge Family Guadalupiidae in the Texas Permian Robert M. Finks.

[Garcia-Bellido_et_al.-2] Cystothalamia vandegraaffi New Species and Other Sphinctozoan Sponges from the Upper Carboniferous of Spain.

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