View source for Pirania

{{Short description|Extinct genus of sponges}}
{{Distinguish|text = [[Piranha (disambiguation)|Piranha]]}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| fossil_range = {{Geological range|Burgess Shale|Middle Ordovician}}<ref name="Botting2007">{{cite journal|last=Botting|first=J. P.|year=2007|title='Cambrian' demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges|journal=[[Geobios]]|volume=40|issue=6|pages=737–748|doi=10.1016/j.geobios.2007.02.006|bibcode=2007Geobi..40..737B }}</ref>
| taxon = Pirania
| image = Pirania muricata Smithsonian miscellaneous collections (1924).jpg
| image_caption = Fossil specimen
| image2 = Diorama of the Burgess Shale Biota (Middle Cambrian) - Pirania sponges.jpg
| image2_caption = Restoration model
| authority = [[Charles Doolittle Walcott|Walcott]], 1920
| type_species = ''Pirania muricata''
| type_species_authority = [[Charles Doolittle Walcott|Walcott]], 1920
| subdivision = {{Species list
| Pirania auraenum | Botting, 2007<ref name="Botting2007"/>
| Pirania llanfawrensis | Botting, 2004<ref>{{cite journal|last=Botting|first=J. P.|year=2004|title=An exceptional Caradoc sponge fauna from the Llanfawr Quarries, Central Wales and phylogenetic implications|journal=[[Journal of Systematic Palaeontology]]|volume=2|issue=1|pages=31–63|doi=10.1017/S147720190300110X|bibcode=2004JSPal...2...31B |s2cid=83477858 }}</ref>
| Pirania muricata | [[Charles Doolittle Walcott|Walcott]], 1920
}}
}}
'''''Pirania''''' is an extinct genus of [[sea sponge]] known from the Middle [[Cambrian]] [[Burgess Shale]] and the Ordovician [[Fezouata formation]].<ref name=DeRoy2010>{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1038/nature09038| title = Ordovician faunas of Burgess Shale type| year = 2010| last1 = Van Roy | first1 = P.| last2 = Orr | first2 = P. J.| last3 = Botting | first3 = J. P.| last4 = Muir | first4 = L. A.| last5 = Vinther | first5 = J.| last6 = Lefebvre | first6 = B.| last7 = Hariri | first7 = K. E.| last8 = Briggs | first8 = D. E. G.| journal = Nature| volume = 465| pages = 215–8| pmid = 20463737| issue = 7295|bibcode = 2010Natur.465..215V | s2cid = 4313285}}</ref> It is named after [[Mount St. Piran]], a mountain situated in the [[Bow River Valley]] in [[Banff National Park]], [[Alberta]]. It was first described in 1920 by [[Charles Doolittle Walcott]].<ref name="Walcott1920MiddleCambrianSpongiae">{{cite journal | last1 = Walcott | first1 = C. D. | year = 1920 | title = Cambrian geology and paleontology IV:6—Middle Cambrian Spongiae | url = https://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/29838882 | journal = [[Smithsonian Miscellaneous Collections]] | volume = 67 | pages = 261–364 }}</ref> 198 specimens of ''Pirania'' are known from the Greater [[Phyllopod bed]], where they comprise 0.38% of the community.<ref name=Caron2006>{{cite journal|last1=Caron |first1=Jean-Bernard|last2=Jackson |first2=Donald A.|title=Taphonomy of the Greater Phyllopod Bed community, Burgess Shale|journal=PALAIOS |volume=21 |issue=5 |pages=451–65|date=October 2006|doi=10.2110/palo.2003.P05-070R|jstor=20173022|bibcode=2006Palai..21..451C |s2cid=53646959 }}</ref>
== References ==
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== External links ==
* {{Cite web|date=2011|title=''Pirania muricata''|work=Burgess Shale Fossil Gallery|publisher=Virtual Museum of Canada|url=http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=102|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/20201112025257/http://burgess-shale.rom.on.ca/en/fossil-gallery/view-species.php?id=102|archive-date=2020-11-12|url-status=dead}}
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[[Category:Burgess Shale fossils]]
[[Category:Protomonaxonida]]
[[Category:Burgess Shale sponges]]
[[Category:Prehistoric sponge genera]]
[[Category:Cambrian first appearances]]
[[Category:Middle Ordovician extinctions]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Charles Doolittle Walcott]]
[[Category:Fossil taxa described in 1920]]
[[Category:Cambrian genus extinctions]]
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