Английская Википедия:Choia

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Choia is a genus of extinct demosponge ranging from the Cambrian until the Lower Ordovician periods. Fossils of Choia have been found in the Burgess Shale in British Columbia; the Maotianshan shales of China; the Wheeler Shale in Utah; and the Lower Ordovician Fezouata formation.[1] It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott.[2]

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Reconstruction of C. carteri, as according to the Fezouata specimens[1]

Life habit

Choia was originally thought to be not attached to the sea bed: the living animal was originally thought to rest directly on the substrate, with the radiating spines from the edge of its flattish, conical body, giving an appearance not unlike that of the peak of a big top, with guy lines. Recently discovered fossils from Lower Ordovician Morocco show that the living animal was actually suspended high above the seafloor, attached via stalk-like spines derived from spicules.[3] Water is assumed to have entered the sponge parallel to the spines, being expelled, presumably, from a central opening.Шаблон:Fotbs Species reached up to an average of 28 mm in diameter.Шаблон:Fotbs

Presence in the Greater Phyllopod Bed

127 specimens of Choia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.2% of the community.[4]

References

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External links

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Шаблон:Cambrian-animal-stub Шаблон:Ordovician-animal-stub Шаблон:Paleo-sponge-stub Шаблон:Demosponge-stub