Amblysiphonella
Taxonomy
This page represents the following TreeOfLife-200M taxonomic path.[1]
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Porifera
- Class: Hexactinellida
- Order: Sebargasiidae
- Family: Amblysiphonella
General overview
Amblysiphonella is an accepted genus name (authored by Steinmann, 1882) placed within the glass sponge class Hexactinellida and the family Sebargasiidae in major biodiversity taxonomic databases. [2]
In paleontological systematic treatments, Amblysiphonella is handled within Ordovician “sphinctozoan sponges,” discussed alongside related taxa in Sebargasiidae. [3]
Visual Description
Museum fossil specimens associated with Amblysiphonella are represented in image holdings as compact, irregularly shaped sponge bodies, with photographs organized as specimen-level records in museum collections (as provided via GBIF-linked holdings). [2]
Notes on knowledge limits (from available extracted text)
The available extracted text for the cited Journal of Paleontology memoir did not provide extractable systematic detail beyond headings/contents, so this page does not assert diagnostic morphological characters, detailed stratigraphic range, or locality/distribution particulars for Amblysiphonella at this time. [3]
Gallery
References
- ↑ Dataset view for Animalia / Porifera / Hexactinellida / Sebargasiidae / Amblysiphonella constructed from imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M records under this taxonomic path. Hugging Face Datasets. https://huggingface.co/datasets/imageomics/TreeOfLife-200M.
- 1 2 Amblysiphonella Steinmann, 1882. GBIF. https://www.gbif.org/species/4580847. Accessed 2026-07-09.
- 1 2 JPA volume 60 issue S20 Cover and Front matter. Journal of Paleontology. 1986. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022336000060832.