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BIODIVERSITY DATA JOURNAL
Volume 10, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PENSOFT PUBLISHERS
DOI: 10.3897/BDJ.10.e87106
Keywords
Fossil Lithistida Collection; stratigraphic range; geographic range; taxonomic identification; digitisation; historical collections; Natural History Museum
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- Natural History Museum
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This paper provides a quantitative and detailed description of the Fossil Lithistida Collection in the Natural History Museum, London, highlighting its historical significance and importance for studying lithistids. Research on lithistids will help understand biosilicification evolution in sponges and unlock changing patterns in the silica cycle in the oceans through geological time.
This paper presents a quantitative and detailed description of the Fossil Lithistida Collection in the Natural History Museum, London. This collection started to be built with the first fossil sponges from the Cretaceous of Wiltshire, collected by William Smith in 1816 and 1818 for the first geological map of England. The latest specimen to enter the collection was collected from the Permo-Carboniferous of Norway by Angela Milner, a researcher at the Museum, in 2000. Although they are mostly from the Cretaceous of England, lithistids are represented from the Cambrian to Cenozoic of England. This makes this collection key for studying this group. Lithistid study will help with understanding of biosilicification evolution in sponges to unlock the changing patterns in the silica cycle in the oceans through geological time.
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