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Siliceous sponges of the Takatika Grit (Cretaceous-Paleogene), Chatham Islands, South Pacific

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 July 2015

Christopher P. Consoli ,
Andrzej Pisera  and
Jeffrey D. Stilwell
Christopher P. Consoli
Affiliation:
1School of Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia, 3now at Geoscience Australia, GPO Box 378, Canberra ACT 2601,
Andrzej Pisera
Affiliation:
2Institute of Paleobiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, ul. Twarda 51/55, 00-818 Warszawa, Poland,
Jeffrey D. Stilwell
Affiliation:
1School of Geosciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria 3800, Australia,
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Abstract

Siliceous sponges are rare in the Cretaceous-Paleogene record, with only a handful of published accounts from the Southern Hemisphere. Variously preserved siliceous sponges, both Hexactinellida and Demospongiae, have been recovered from the Takatika Grit (Campanian-Danian), Chatham Islands, New Zealand. Hexactinellid sponges are represented by the Euretidae Eotretochone australis n. gen. and sp., Pararete sp., and Euretid gen. and sp. indet., Auloplax? sp. (Dactylocalycidae) and Tretodictyiid gen. and sp. indet., as well as by loose hexactines and fragments of dictyonal skeletons. Demosponges are represented only by loose spicules typical of Astrophorida, and perhaps lithistids. These fossils represent the first account of sponges of this age from the New Zealand region of the southwest Pacific.

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Journal of Paleontology , Volume 83 , Issue 5 , September 2009 , pp. 811 - 819
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