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Siphonia
Extinct genus of sponges / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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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.
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Siphonia | |
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S. pyriformis & S. tulipa | |
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Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Porifera |
Class: | Demospongiae |
Family: | †Siphoniidae |
Genus: | †Siphonia Goldfuss, 1826 |
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