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A Silurian sponge-inarticulate brachiopod life? association

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 May 2016

Alfred C. Lenz
Alfred C. Lenz*
Affiliation:
Department of Geology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario N6A 5B7, Canada
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The association of sponges and encrusting, attached, or burrowing organisms has been commented upon relatively little. Finks (1960) and Gundrum (1979), for example, noted the association of articulate brachiopods, barnacle borings, bryozoans, gastropods, and rugose and tabulate corals with various upper Paleozoic sponges and, more specific to this paper, Morris and Whittington (1985) illustrated the inarticulate brachiopod Micromitra attached to the Cambrian sponge Pirania. During the summer of 1991, two scree-derived specimens of sponge-inarticulate brachiopod associations on two separate pieces of shale were collected from Abbott River (Figure 1), Cornwallis Island, Arctic Canada (75°14′N, 95°45′W).

Type
Paleontological Notes
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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 67 , Issue 1 , January 1993 , pp. 138 - 139
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Copyright © The Paleontological Society 

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