Vauxia

Taxobox
name = "Vauxia"
fossil_range = Cambrian
regnum = Animalia
phylum = Porifera
classis = Demospongaea
ordo = Verospongiida
genus = "Vauxia"
subdivision_ranks = Species
subdivision =
* ?"V. magna"

"Vauxia" is an extinct genus of a large, branching sponge. Each branch was comprised of a network of strands. Vauxia also had a skeleton of spongin (flexible organic material) common to modern day sponges. Much like Choia and other sponges, Vauxia fed by extracting nutrients from the water.

External links

* [http://www.park.org/Canada/Museum/burgessshale/faunaandflora.html link title]