{"id":4765,"date":"2014-01-12T18:35:04","date_gmt":"2014-01-12T23:35:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/?page_id=4765"},"modified":"2015-02-15T13:18:18","modified_gmt":"2015-02-15T18:18:18","slug":"stromatoporoidea","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/porifera\/stromatoporoidea\/","title":{"rendered":"Stromatoporoidea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Classification<\/strong><br \/>\nPhylum: <a title=\"Porifera\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/porifera\/\">Porifera<\/a><br \/>\nClass: Stromatoporoidea (Nicholson &#038; Murie, 1878)<br \/>\nCincinnatian Orders: <a title=\"Labechiida\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/porifera\/stromatoporoidea\/labechiida\/\">Labechiida<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Geologic Range<\/strong><br \/>\nCambrian &#8211; Cretaceous <\/p>\n<p><strong>Common Paleoecology<\/strong><br \/>\nStromatoporoidea is an extinct class of stationary epifaunal suspension feeders which have been interpreted to have hosted symbiotic algae in their tissues<\/p>\n<p><strong>Characteristics of the Class<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Skeleton most often appears distinctly layered<\/li>\n<li>Surface of the colony is commonly marked by bumps<\/li>\n<li>Generally there is a hole in the center of each bump<\/li>\n<li>Pattern of shallow grooves radiating from each canal opening<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[accordions title=&#8221;&#8221; disabled=&#8221;false&#8221; active=&#8221;1&#8243; autoheight=&#8221;false&#8221; collapsible=&#8221;true&#8221;] [accordion title=&#8221;Published Descriptions&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p><em>Davis (1998)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> The name stromatoporoid means &#8220;layered place&#8221;. This name is appropriate because the skeleton of these colonial creatures most often appears distinctly layered, especially in thin-section. The surface  of the colony commonly is marked by bumps(see, for example, <em>Labechia<\/em> on pl. VI). Generally there is a hole in the center of each bump; this is the opening of a canal feeding down into the mass of the colony. In many types of stromatoporoids there is a pattern of shallow grooves radiating from each canal opening. Stromatoporoids can be identified only after study of thin-sections of colonies.<\/li>\n<li>For many years it was thought that stromatoporoids were long extinct, and there was much question as to just what kind of creatures they were. Then in the mid-1960&#8217;s some animals were discovered in the Caribbean which exhibited many of the characteristics of the ancient stromatoporoids. These &#8220;new&#8221; animals were found to be sponges.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Nicholson &#038; Murie (1878)<\/em>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Under <em>Stromatopora<\/em>:<\/strong> Skeleton (&#8220;sarcodeme&#8221;) consisting of concentric calcareous laminae, separated by distinct &#8220;interlaminar spaces&#8221;, which are crossed by numerous vertical &#8220;radial pillars&#8221;. In some cases there are radiating water-canals and surface-grooves placed round minor centres. Sometimes there are seen on the surface the openings of large water-canals (&#8220;oscula&#8221;). <\/li>\n<li><i>Habit-<\/i> Forming irregular masses, sometimes with a foreign body as a nucleus; spreading out into extended expansions, covered inferiorly by a thin striated calcareous membrane (&#8220;epitheca&#8221;), or growing in thin layers parasitically upon foreign objects.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>[\/accordion] [\/accordions]<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"height: 300px; width: 800px;\" align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"border-right: 15px solid white; float: left; width: 250px;\">\n<p align=\"center\">Labechiida<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/porifera\/stromatoporoidea\/labechiida\/\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/dermatostroma-250-black.png?resize=250%2C250&#038;ssl=1\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Classification Phylum: Porifera Class: Stromatoporoidea (Nicholson &#038; Murie, 1878) Cincinnatian Orders: Labechiida Geologic Range Cambrian &#8211; Cretaceous Common Paleoecology Stromatoporoidea is an extinct class of stationary epifaunal suspension feeders which have been interpreted to have hosted symbiotic algae in their &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/atlas\/porifera\/stromatoporoidea\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Stromatoporoidea<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":4762,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"full-width-page.php","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4765","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P3T22h-1eR","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4765"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11279,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4765\/revisions\/11279"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ordovicianatlas.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}