Izvestiya of Saratov University.
ISSN 1819-7663 (Print)
ISSN 2542-1921 (Online)


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Aphrocallistes Gray 1858 (Porifera, Hexactinellida) from the Late Cretaceous of the East European paleobiogeographical province

The Late Cretaceous and the Paleocene representatives of the Aphrocallistes from the East European Province are known from the scanty skeletal fragments. The fragmentary preservation state of the fossils has brought about some contradictory characteristics of the genus and the idea of those sponges diversity. Colonial Aphrocallistes are regarded as the typical representatives of the Maastrichtian spongiofauna from the west of the European region.