{"title":"Teganium (Porifera, Hexactinellida) from the Middle Ordovician Castle Bank fauna of Avalonia (Wales, UK)","authors":"J. Botting, L. Muir, Junye Ma","doi":"10.26879/1247","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"The hexactinellid sponges Teganium and Teganiella are widespread in Ordovi-cian, Devonian and Carboniferous strata in Laurentia, but have not previously been reported outside that palaeocontinent; some other members of the family Teganiidae are also restricted to Laurentia. The genus Teganiella in particular is considered to be a Laurentian endemic, with all species specialised for equatorial, shallow-water conditions. However, it is now clear that the diagnostic separation of Teganiella from Tega-nium was based on misunderstanding of the latter","PeriodicalId":56100,"journal":{"name":"Palaeontologia Electronica","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"9","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Palaeontologia Electronica","FirstCategoryId":"89","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.26879/1247","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"地球科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Earth and Planetary Sciences","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
The hexactinellid sponges Teganium and Teganiella are widespread in Ordovi-cian, Devonian and Carboniferous strata in Laurentia, but have not previously been reported outside that palaeocontinent; some other members of the family Teganiidae are also restricted to Laurentia. The genus Teganiella in particular is considered to be a Laurentian endemic, with all species specialised for equatorial, shallow-water conditions. However, it is now clear that the diagnostic separation of Teganiella from Tega-nium was based on misunderstanding of the latter
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