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Sandy Cui

University of Colorado Boulder

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The fossil record of siliceous sponge spicules can be taken at face value

Sandy Cui, Nicole Mizrahi, Shaily Rahman, Scott Nichols, Talia S. Karim, Carl Simpson

The paper shows that siliceous sponge spicules first appear in the fossil record during the Cambrian, not the Ediacaran, and that this reflects their actual evolutionary timing rather than taphonomic bias.

bioRxiv · Jan 30, 2026 · PreprintPaleontology