Jereica polystoma
Product number:
F1006
Product information "Jereica polystoma"
A club-shaped siliceous sponge with an ancient label.
Age: Upper Cretaceous, Cenomanian;
Fundort: Dolberg, Westfalia, Germany
Größe: 11,5 cm long; 6 cm wide
The pictures three shows a number of coaxial tubes of the exhalent water system, exiting in the oscules on the top of the sponge. The outer shell of the sponge is made up of numerous radial prosopyles (inhalent water channels conducting water from the ostia to the choanocyte chambers in the interior).
Colours on the photo may slightly differ from the original specimen.
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