They all had distinctive pear-shaped bodies that were attached to the seafloor via a long stem. Their common name, "tulip sponges,"[citation needed] refers to their suggestive shape, while the genus name refers to how the spongocoel (the main tube of the sponge body) runs almost the entire length of the sponge, as though it were almost a drinking straw.
siphonia, genus, extinct, hallirhoid, demosponges, lower, upper, cretaceous, from, about, million, years, they, lived, western, tethys, ocean, what, europe, temporal, range, preꞒ, early, late, cretaceous, aptian, maastrichtian, pyriformis, tulipascientific, cl. Siphonia is a genus of extinct hallirhoid demosponges of the Lower and Upper Cretaceous from about 125 to 66 million years ago 1 They lived in the Western Tethys Ocean in what is now Europe SiphoniaTemporal range 125 66 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N Early to Late Cretaceous Aptian to Maastrichtian S pyriformis amp S tulipaScientific classificationDomain EukaryotaKingdom AnimaliaPhylum PoriferaClass DemospongiaeFamily SiphoniidaeGenus SiphoniaGoldfuss 1826Species S pyriformis S tulipa S koenigi S lycoperdites S praemorsa S tubulosa S benstedii S pulchra Contents 1 Description 2 Gallery 3 References 4 External linksDescription EditThey all had distinctive pear shaped bodies that were attached to the seafloor via a long stem Their common name tulip sponges citation needed refers to their suggestive shape while the genus name refers to how the spongocoel the main tube of the sponge body runs almost the entire length of the sponge as though it were almost a drinking straw Gallery Edit nbsp Siphonia lycoperdites on display at the Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Milano nbsp Siphonia pyriformis Museum de Toulouse fr References Edit Paleobiology Database Parker Steve Dinosaurus the complete guide to dinosaurs Firefly Books Inc 2003 Pg 34External links EditReconstruction of S pyriformis 1 Reconstruction of S tulipa 2 Reconstruction of S tulipa S pyriformis and the related Hallirhoa costata 3 Fossil S pyriformis 4 nbsp Paleontology portal nbsp This article about a Cretaceous animal is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This prehistoric sponge article is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Siphonia amp oldid 1127999586, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
