Carbonaceous preservation of Cambrian hexactinellid sponge spicules

• Published in: Biology Letters
• Main Author: Harvey, Thomas H. P.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: The Royal Society 2010
• Subjects: Palaeontology; Burgess; Canada; Forteau; Newfoundland
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3001373; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20554559; https://doi.org/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...