Most sponges produce skeletons formed by spicules, structural elements that develop in a
wide variety of sizes and tridimensional shapes. The morphologies of spicules are often …

This paper concerns the changes occurred over both decennial and millennial spans of time
in a sponge assemblage present in coralligenous biogenic build-ups growing at 15 m depth …

Wetland carbon storage is an important and environmentally sensitive ecosystem service.
Carbon burial in the floodplain lakes of the Pantanal (tropical South America) appears to …

Siliceous spicules in demosponges exist in a variety of shapes, some of which look like
minute spheres of glass. They are called “sterrasters” when they belong to the Geodiidae …

A diverse assemblage of bodily preserved sponges has been recovered from a lower
Lutetian tuffite horizon in the Chiampo Valley, Lessini Mountains, Italy. The sponge …

A siliceous sponge fauna, consisting of more than 900 specimens, is described from an
early Lutetian tuffite horizon in the Chiampo Valley, Lessini Mountains, north-eastern Italy …

The late Eocene 'soft'sponge fauna of southern Australia is reconstructed based on
disassociated spicules and is used to interpret the paleoecology and environmental context …

Abstract The Messinian Salinity Crisis (MSC) created a substantial negative impact on the
Mediterranean marine fauna and flora because hypersaline conditions were established in …

We here redescribe Palaeophis oweni, an almost neglected species of palaeophiid snakes
from the Eocene of Monte Duello, northeastern Italy. Despite having been described since …

Porifera is a clade of globally distributed, early diverging metazoans that are important
components of modern aquatic environments. Despite the fact that they were also abundant …