IRMNG name details
original description
Article title: The first animals: ca. 760-million-year-old sponge-like fossils from Namibia. [details]
original description
South African Journal of Science 108: -. [83-90] [details]
basis of record
www.organismnames.com (Mar 2015) / web search [details]
status source
Antcliffe, J. B.; Callow, R. H. T.; Brasier, M. D. (2014). Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze. Biological Reviews. 89(4): 972-1004., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12090 [details]
verified source for family
Antcliffe, J. B.; Callow, R. H. T.; Brasier, M. D. (2014). Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze. Biological Reviews. 89(4): 972-1004., available online at https://doi.org/10.1111/brv.12090 [details]
extant flag source
inferred from original work (title) [details]
habitat flag source
inferred from original work (title)/web search (AJR) [details]
Unreviewed
Taxonomic remark Described as "sponge-like", however Poriferan affinity is rejected by Antcliffe et al., 2014, who interpret the objects as non-biotic ("calciphosphate grains that have been pitted by sediment reworking"). [details]
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