TY  - JOUR
A1  - Schlagintweit, Felix
A1  - Frijia, Gianluca
A1  - Parente, Mariano
T1  - Sarmentofascis zamparelliae n. sp., a new demosponge from the lower Campanian of southern Italy
JF  - Cretaceous research
N2  - A new coralline sponge, exhibiting typical "stromatoporoid" bodyplan, is described as Sarmentofascis zamparelliae n. sp. from the lower Campanian of the southern Apennines, Italy. It is differentiated from Sarmentofascis cretacea (Turnsek) (Hauterivian of Montenegro) and Sarmentofascis chabrieri Termier, Termier and Vachard (Santonian of France) above all by its slender arborescent skeleton, exhibiting longitudinally distributed astrorhizae-like canals. S. zamparelliae n. sp. is the youngest representative of the genus and is reported from a period exhibiting a distinct decline of "stromatoporoid" sponges. With its clinogonal microstructure and occurrence in inner platform stromatoporoid-foraminiferan floatstones it can be considered a Late Cretaceous environmental analog to the Late Jurassic Cladocoropsis. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
KW  - Sponges
KW  - Systematics
KW  - Sarmentofascis
KW  - Cladocoropsis
KW  - Upper Cretaceous
Y1  - 2016
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cretres.2015.07.018
SN  - 0195-6671
SN  - 1095-998X
VL  - 57
SP  - 157
EP  - 164
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - London
ER  -