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Pirania Temporal range: Burgess Shale–Middle Ordovician PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
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Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Class:	Demospongiae
Order:	†Protomonaxonida
Family:	†Piraniidae
Genus:	†Pirania Walcott, 1920
Type species
Pirania muricata Walcott, 1920
Species
Pirania auraenum Botting, 2007 Pirania llanfawrensis Botting, 2004 Pirania muricata Walcott, 1920

Pirania is an extinct genus of sea sponge known from the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and the Ordovician Fezouata formation. It is named after Mount St. Piran, a mountain situated in the Bow River Valley in Banff National Park, Alberta. It was first described in 1920 by Charles Doolittle Walcott. 198 specimens of Pirania are known from the Greater Phyllopod bed, where they comprise 0.38% of the community.

References

1. ^ Botting, J. P. (2007). "'Cambrian' demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges". Geobios. 40 (6): 737–748. Bibcode:2007Geobi..40..737B. doi:10.1016/j.geobios.2007.02.006.
2. Botting, J. P. (2004). "An exceptional Caradoc sponge fauna from the Llanfawr Quarries, Central Wales and phylogenetic implications". Journal of Systematic Palaeontology. 2 (1): 31–63. Bibcode:2004JSPal...2...31B. doi:10.1017/S147720190300110X. S2CID 83477858.
3. Van Roy, P.; Orr, P. J.; Botting, J. P.; Muir, L. A.; Vinther, J.; Lefebvre, B.; Hariri, K. E.; Briggs, D. E. G. (2010). "Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type". Nature. 465 (7295): 215–8. Bibcode:2010Natur.465..215V. doi:10.1038/nature09038. PMID 20463737. S2CID 4313285.
4. Walcott, C. D. (1920). "Cambrian geology and paleontology IV:6—Middle Cambrian Spongiae". Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections. 67: 261–364.
5. Caron, Jean-Bernard; Jackson, Donald A. (October 2006). "Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale". PALAIOS. 21 (5): 451–65. Bibcode:2006Palai..21..451C. doi:10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R. JSTOR 20173022. S2CID 53646959.

External links

• "Pirania muricata". Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery. Virtual Museum of Canada. 2011. Archived from the original on 2020-11-12.

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