Dystactospongia madisonensis Foerste, 1909

  • UC 44342 label
    Photographer: Paul S. Mayer : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: 2021 Summer IMLS Ordovician Digitization Project. Sponge label
  • UC 44342 fossil
    Photographer: Paul S. Mayer : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: 2021 Summer IMLS Ordovician Digitization Project. Sponge fossil
  • UC 44342 fossil2
    Photographer: Paul S. Mayer : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: 2021 Summer IMLS Ordovician Digitization Project. Sponge fossil
  • UC 44342 fossil3
    Photographer: Paul S. Mayer : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: 2021 Summer IMLS Ordovician Digitization Project. Sponge fossil
  • UC 44342 fossil4
    Photographer: Paul S. Mayer : Field Museum of Natural History - Geology Department
    (c) Field Museum of Natural History - CC BY-NC 4.0
    Description: 2021 Summer IMLS Ordovician Digitization Project. Sponge fossil
Catalog Number: UC 44342
Taxonomic Name: Dystactospongia madisonensis Foerste, 1909
FM Catalog: Fossil Invertebrates
Object Kind: Hand Specimen
Lot count: 15
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongea
Order: Astrophorida
Period: Ordovician
Formation: Elkhorn
Coordinates Available?: No
Country: United States of America
State/Province/Territory: Ohio
County: Preble
EMu IRN: 4387101
Occurrence ID: 5a8d3453-2641-4d66-b0e5-74d09dd9577d

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