#carboniferous — Public Fediverse posts
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#Paleontologists Find 315-Million-Year-Old Sponge Fossil in Ireland https://www.sci.news/paleontology/cyathophycus-balori-12588.html
An oversized, late-surviving reticulosan sponge from the #Carboniferous of Ireland https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0016699523000736
"This is an exceptionally large example of a type of #fossil sponge that was previously only known from much older rocks elsewhere in the world... The #sponge was originally composed of a rectangular meshwork of tiny spicules made of silica, held together by a thin organic membrane"