Capsospongia
| Capsospongia Temporal range: Middle Cambrian,
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Family: | †Anthaspidellidae |
| Genus: | †Capsospongia Rigby 1986 |
| Species: | †C. undulata
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| Binomial name | |
| †Capsospongia undulata Walcott 1920
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Capsospongia is a middle Cambrian sponge genus known from 2 specimens in the Burgess shale.[1] It has a narrow base, and consists of bulging rings which get wider further up the sponge, resulting in a conical shape. Its open top was presumably used to expel water that had passed through the sponge cells and been filtered for nutrients.
Like most sponges, Capsospoingia had a spicular skeleton; long spicules parallel to the growth direction formed columns which were connected by shorter lateral spicules.
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References
- ^ Briggs, D. E. G.; Erwin, D. H.; Collier, F. J. (1995), Fossils of the Burgess Shale, Washington: Smithsonian Inst Press, ISBN 1-56098-659-X, OCLC 231793738
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