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Scientific classification 
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| Clade: | Viridiplantae |
| Division: | Chlorophyta |
| Class: | UTC clade |
| Order: | Dasycladales (?) |
| Family: | †Receptaculitaceae |
| Genus: | †Sphaerospongia Pengelly, 1861 |
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Sphaerospongia is an extinct genus of organism found in marine beds of Devonian age. Its classification is enigmatic, but it is typically placed among the sponges or the receptaculites. The organism has a surface covered with hexagonal plates, and some early taxonomists placed it among the echinoderms. It is found in close association with the horn coral Tabulophyllum traversensis in the Onate Formation of New Mexico, US, where it provides a substrate for the coral.
References
- Sphaerospongia . Retrieved through: Interim Register of Marine and Nonmarine Genera on 14 January 2022.
- Day, J.; Uyeno, T.; Norris, W.; Witzke, B.J.; Bunker, B.J. (1996). "Middle-Upper Devonian relative sea-level histories of central and western North American interior basins". Geological Society of America Special Papers. 306: 259–275. ISBN 9780813723068. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- Nitecki, Matthew H.; Mutvei, Harry; Nitecki, Doris V. (1999). "Quaestio disputata: Morphological Reductionism". Receptaculitids. pp. 109–142. doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-4691-7_6. ISBN 978-1-4613-7124-3.
- Nitecki, Matthew H. (1999). Receptaculitids : a phylogenetic debate on a problematic fossil taxon. New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers. ISBN 9780306462016. Retrieved 13 January 2022.
- Sorauf, James E. (1987). "The rugose coral Tabulophyllum traversensis from the Oñate Formation (Middle Devonian) of the Mud Springs Mountains, New Mexico". Journal of Paleontology. 61 (1): 14–20. Bibcode:1987JPal...61...14S. doi:10.1017/S0022336000028158. ISSN 0022-3360. JSTOR 1305128. S2CID 131923020.
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