Turonia
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| Turonia Temporal range: | |
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| Turonia variabilis from France | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Class: | Demospongiae |
| Family: | †Siphoniidae |
| Genus: | †Turonia Michelin, 1847 [1] |
Turonia is an extinct genus of sea sponges belonging to the class Demospongiae.[2]
This genus is known in the fossil record of the Cretaceous of France, Germany, Poland and Spain (about 125 to 66 million years ago).
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