Pseudobecksia schmidti Reid 1964 (glass sponge)

Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Euretidae

Full reference: R. E. H. Reid. 1964. A monograph of the Upper Cretaceous Hexactinellida of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Part IV. Palaeontographical Society Monograph 49-154

Belongs to Pseudobecksia according to R. E. H. Reid 1964

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Rickmansworth, which is in a Coniacian/Santonian offshore chalk in the United Kingdom

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Rickmansworth

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