The Triassic sponge Neoguadalupia oregonensis senowbari-Daryan and Stanley, 1998, is actually the trace of a living bee's nest

From: Journal of Paleontology | Date: July 1, 1999| Author: | Copyright information

WE RECENTLY described a new species of Upper Triassic chambered sponge, Neoguadalupia oregonensis Senowbari-Daryan and Stanley, 1998, from the Upper Triassic Martin Bridge Formation of northeastern Oregon. Several individuals on this putative sponge were exposed on a freshly broken slab of black limestone, and they appeared to exhibit the correct size and arrangement of calcified tissue associated with the thalamid sponge genus Neoguadalupia. The slab was collected near the base of a nearly vertical cliff exposure along a forest road in the southern Wallowa Mountains, Oregon. The putative ...

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