Carbonaceous preservation of Cambrian hexactinellid sponge spicules

• Published in: Biology Letters
• Main Author: Harvey, Thomas H. P.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2010
• Subjects: Burgess; Canada; Forteau; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0377; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0377; https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/full-xml/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0377

Early fossil sponges offer a direct window onto the evolutionary emergence of animals, but insights are limited by the paucity of characters preserved in the conventional fossil record. Here, a new preservational mode for sponge spicules is reported from the lower Cambrian Forteau Formation (Newfoun...