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Middle Cambrian sponges from the Drum Mountains and House Range in western Utah

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

J. Keith Rigby ,
Stephen B. Church  and
Nicolle K. Anderson
J. Keith Rigby
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, S-389 Eyring Science Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602-4606, USA, ,
Stephen B. Church
Affiliation:
Sinclair Oil & Gas Company, 550 East South Temple, P. O. Box 30825, Salt Lake City, Utah 84130-0825, USA,
Nicolle K. Anderson
Affiliation:
Department of Geological Sciences, S-389 Eyring Science Center, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602-4606, USA, ,
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Abstract

A diverse assemblage of Middle Cambrian sponges, recently collected from the Wheeler and Marjum Formations of western Millard County, Utah, includes a variety of demosponges and hexactinellids. This collection includes the verongiid Vauxia bellula Walcott, 1920, and the protomonaxonids Choia carteri and Choia ridleyi Walcott, 1920, Hamptonia bowerbanki Walcott, 1920, and Hamptonia parva n. sp. Hexactinellids in the collection include the reticulosid protospongioids Diagoniella hindei Walcott, 1920, and Diagoniella magna n. sp.; the dierespongioid hydnodictyid Valospongia? gigantus Rigby, 1973; and the hintzespongioid Hintzespongia bilamina Rigby and Gutschick, 1976. A specimen of the problematic Sentinelia? draco Walcott, 1920, is also documented as part of the collection.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 84 , Issue 1 , January 2010 , pp. 66 - 78
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