Guadalupia

Extinct genus of sponges

Guadalupia

Temporal range: Pennsylvanian–Norian

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Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
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

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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.

Taxon identifiers

Guadalupia|

* Wikidata: Q5613264
* GBIF: 4583344
* IRMNG: 1095853
* Open Tree of Life: 2834083
* Paleobiology Database: 3461

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