Eiffelia

http://dbpedia.org/resource/Eiffelia an entity of type: Animal

Eiffelia is an extinct genus of sponges known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale as well as several Early Cambrian small shelly fossil deposits. It is named after Eiffel Peak, which was itself named after the Eiffel Tower. It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott. It belongs in the Hexactinellid stem group. 60 specimens of Eiffelia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.11% of the community. Eiffelia generally have star-shaped six-rayed spicules, with rays diverging at 60°, occasionally with a seventh ray perpendicular to the other six. rdf:langString
rdf:langString Eiffelia
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rdf:langString Walcott, 1920
rdf:langString Species
rdf:langString *Lenastella (Missarzhevsky in Missarzhevsky & Mambetov, 1981) * Actinoites (Duan, 1984) * Niphadus (Duan, 1984)
rdf:langString Eiffelia
rdf:langString †Eiffelia globosa
rdf:langString Walcott, 1920
rdf:langString Eiffelia is an extinct genus of sponges known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale as well as several Early Cambrian small shelly fossil deposits. It is named after Eiffel Peak, which was itself named after the Eiffel Tower. It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott. It belongs in the Hexactinellid stem group. 60 specimens of Eiffelia are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.11% of the community. Eiffelia generally have star-shaped six-rayed spicules, with rays diverging at 60°, occasionally with a seventh ray perpendicular to the other six.
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