Hunanospongia delicata Qian and Ding 1988 (glass sponge)

Hexactinellida - Reticulosa - Protospongiidae

Belongs to Hunanospongia according to Qian and Ding 1988

Sister taxa: none

Type specimen: Its type locality is Yangjiaping, bed 1, which is in a Nemakit-Daldynian deep-water shale in the Yangjiaping Formation of China

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Yangjiaping, bed 1

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