Hydnoceras
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| Hydnoceras Temporal range: | |
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| Hydnoceras bathense specimen on display at the Senckenberg Museum für Naturkunde Görlitz in Germany | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Hexactinellida |
| Order: | †Reticulosa |
| Genus: | †Hydnoceras Conrad, 1842 |
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Hydroceras Dawson & Hinde, 1889 | |
Hydnoceras is an extinct genus of sponges that existed from the Upper Devonian through the end of the Pennsylvanian.[1]
Hydnoceras specimens are typically around 8.375 inches long, and about 3.5 inches wide. 8 pronounced ridges run down along the length of the sponge and are crossed by horizontal ridges, producing conical swellings at intersections. Hydnoceras fossils' entire surfaces are typically covered by coarse and fine rectangular patterns of narrow, threadlike ridges. The threadlike ridges are produced as a result of the way in which these sponges usually fossilized. Hydnoceras specimens fossilize as internal molds of the actual sponge's skeleton, and the rectangular latticelike ridges are an impression of the sponge's skeleton.[1]
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