Astylospongiidae
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Astylospongiidae
Visual Description
Members of the Astylospongiidae (as represented in available museum-fossil image records) are typically encountered as fossil sponge specimens rather than living material. Dataset images show discrete, rock-embedded fossil sponge morphologies preserved as compact to branching/irregular forms, consistent with siliceous sponge body-plan preservation in the fossil record.
Higher-level context and notes
GBIF treats Astylospongiidae as an accepted taxon (listed at family rank in that system), indicating that it is recognized as a valid grouping within Porifera for occurrence and specimen records.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Astylospongiidae constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.