Actinostromaria
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Demospongiae
- Order: Axinellida
- Family: Actinostromariidae
- Genus: Actinostromaria
Visual Description
The provided images associated with Actinostromaria in the Actinostromariidae/ Axinellida fossil dataset are shown as calcified demosponge/invertebrate fossil material (museum-specimen entries indexed via GBIF-derived records). Visually, the material fits a reef/bioconstruction context, where the sponge contributes to hard substrate-encrusting to locally branching microstructures that form part of associated carbonate fossil assemblages.
Systematic / nomenclatural notes
GBIF lists Actinostromaria Haug, 1909 as an accepted genus within Actinostromariidae (order Axinellida, class Demospongiae).
Reef associations (Upper Jurassic context)
In Upper Jurassic reef successions of Crimea, calcified sponge-associated microframework settings include multiple calcified demosponge taxa. Within the same reef complex, Actinostromaria is recorded as part of the broader assemblage of calcified demosponge taxa in the Upper Kimmeridgian–Tithonian succession.
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Demospongiae / Axinellida / Actinostromariidae / Actinostromaria constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.