Guadalupia

Short description: Extinct genus of sponges

Guadalupia

Temporal range: Pennsylvanian–Norian

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Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Porifera
Class:  | Demospongiae
Order:  | Agelasida
Family:  | †Guadalupiidae
Genus:  | †Guadalupia
Girty, 1908

Guadalupia is an extinct genus of sea sponges. It includes a number of extinct species including: Guadalupia auricula, G. cupulosa, G. ramescens, G. microcamera, and G. vasa.[1]

Fossils of Guadalupia zitteliana Girty, 1908a and Guadalupia explanata (King, 1943) have been found in the Upper Permian limestone near the Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico.[2]

## References

1. ↑ The Sponge Family Guadalupiidae in the Texas Permian Robert M. Finks.
2. ↑ Rigby, J. K.; Senowbari-Daryan, B.; Liu, H. (1998). "Sponges of the Permian Upper Capitan Limestone Guadalupe Mountains, New Mexico and Texas". Brigham Young University Geology Studies 43: 19-89. ISSN 0068-1016. https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70020329.

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