Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and ...

The sponges, also known as Phylum Porifera, represents one of the most basal groups ... Additionally, in the ancient sponge Geodia cydonium, often referred to as a living fossil, researchers J.

Chinese and South Korean researchers jointly discovered the oldest known phosphatic stromatoporoid sponge fossil dating back 480 million years called Lophiostroma leizunia in Yichang, Central ...

This finding establishes the phylum Porifera (sponges) as the first animal group known to utilize ... had the genetic capacity to employ diverse biomineralization strategies. Fossil evidence indicates ...

International scientists have uncovered the oldest known phosphatic stromatoporoid sponge, dating back approximately 480 million years to the Early ...

This finding establishes the phylum Porifera (sponges) as the first animal group ... to employ diverse biomineralization strategies. Fossil evidence indicates that Lophiostroma leizunia formed ...

This finding establishes the phylum Porifera (sponges) as the first animal group known to utilize ... had the genetic capacity to employ diverse biomineralization strategies. Fossil evidence indicates ...