Fossils of Hydnoceras, a large dictyospongiid from the Upper Devonian
Scientific classification
Domain:
Eukaryota
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Porifera
Class:
Hexactinellida
Subclass:
Amphidiscophora
Order:
†Reticulosa Reid, 1958
Reticulosa is an extinct order of sea sponges in the class Hexactinellida (glass sponges) and the subclass Amphidiscophora.[1][2] Reticulosans were diverse in shape and size, similar to their modern relatives, the amphidiscosidans. Some were smooth and attached to a surface at a flat point, others were polyhedral or ornamented with nodes, many were covered in bristles, and a few were even suspended above the seabed by a rope-like anchor of braided glass spicules.[2][3]
Reticulosans comprise the vast majority of Paleozoic hexactinellid diversity, though only a few species survived up to the Mesozoic.[2][3] They may include the oldest sponge body fossil in the world: Palaeophragmodictya, from the late Ediacaran (~555 Ma), was originally described as a reticulosan based on its mesh-like surface texture.[4] Ediacaran-type preservation has obscured any information about spicule structure, and some authors doubt that Palaeophragmodictya is a sponge in the first place.[5][6][7] Regardless, unambiguous reticulosans appear in the fossil record not much later, in the early Cambrian.[2]
Like most other glass sponges, reticulosans had a skeleton of unfused macroscleres reinforced with microscopic microscleres. Their macroscleres are often stauractines (four-rayed spicules, + shaped), though pentactine (five-rayed) or hexactine (six-rayed) spicules may be predominant in certain regions of the skeleton. The outer layer of the skeleton forms a regular mesh-like pattern, with incrementally smaller spicules filling in the gaps between larger spicules in a fractal pattern. The microscleres, when present, are simple bundled rods (paraclavules).[2][3]
The living glass sponge Sclerothamnus is sometimes compared to the reticulosan family Titusvillidae,[2][8] though it is more commonly placed in the family Tretodictyidae of the order Sceptrulophora.[9]
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^Gehling, James G.; Rigby, J. Keith (March 1996). "Long expected sponges from the Neoproterozoic Ediacara fauna of South Australia". Journal of Paleontology. 70 (2): 185–195. doi:10.1017/S0022336000023283. ISSN 0022-3360.
^Serezhnikova, E. A. (2007). "Palaeophragmodictya spinosa sp. nov., a bilateral benthic organism from the Vendian of the Southeastern White Sea Region". Paleontological Journal. 41 (4): 360–369. doi:10.1134/S0031030107040028. ISSN 0031-0301.
^Antcliffe, Jonathan B.; Callow, Richard H. T.; Brasier, Martin D. (2014). "Giving the early fossil record of sponges a squeeze: The early fossil record of sponges". Biological Reviews. 89 (4): 972–1004. doi:10.1111/brv.12090.
^Cunningham, John A.; Liu, Alexander G.; Bengtson, Stefan; Donoghue, Philip C. J. (2017). "The origin of animals: Can molecular clocks and the fossil record be reconciled?". BioEssays. 39 (1): e201600120. doi:10.1002/bies.201600120.
^Burr, Sande A.; Chiment, John J.; Allmon, Warren D.; Rigby, J. Keith (2003). "A Problematic Fossil Brings Paleontology to the Classroom and the World". Journal of Geoscience Education. 51 (4): 361–364. doi:10.5408/1089-9995-51.4.361. ISSN 1089-9995.
^Reid, R.E.H. (1961). "Notes on Hexactinellid sponges—III. Seven Hexactinosa". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 4 (48): 739–747. doi:10.1080/00222936108651201. ISSN 0374-5481.
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