Parallelostroma longicolumnum Stock and Holmes 1986 (stromatoporoid sponge)

Stromatoporoidea - Syringostromatida - Coenostromatidae

Full reference: C. W. Stock and A. E. Holmes. 1986. Upper Silurian/Lower Devonian stromatoporoidea from the Keyser Formation at Mustoe, Highland County, west-central Virginia. Journal of Paleontology 60(3):555-580

Belongs to Parallelostroma according to C. W. Stock and A. E. Holmes 1986

Sister taxa: Parallelostroma dzinsetuense, Parallelostroma foveolatum, Parallelostroma keyserense, Parallelostroma microporum, Parallelostroma multicolumnum

Type specimen: Its type locality is Mustoe, biostromes, which is in a Pridoli/Lochkovian reef, buildup or bioherm limestone in the Keyser Formation of Virginia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution: found only at Mustoe, biostromes

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