Astylospongia
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Astylospongiidae
- Order: Astylospongia
Visual Description
Based on fossil specimens, Astylospongia typically exhibits a rounded, often spherical or subspherical body form. The surface is characterized by a distinct pattern of small, radiating, arcuate canals, which are generally uniform and non-anastomosing.[1],[2]
General Information
Astylospongia is a genus of fossil sponges established by Roemer in 1860.[3] It belongs to the family Astylospongiidae, which includes various Ordovician sponge genera. The genus is distinguished from other members of the family, such as Tympanospongia, by its specific excurrent canal system.
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References
- 1 2 Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Astylospongiidae / Astylospongia constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- ↑ Freek Rhebergen. A new Ordovician astylospongiid sponge (Porifera) as an erratic from Baltica. Netherlands Journal of Geosciences – Geologie en Mijnbouw. 2004. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0016774600020357.
- ↑ Astylospongia Roemer, 1860. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/4581802. Accessed 2026-07-09.