Thin section photographs of Lophiostroma leizunia.Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Posted on 06/22/2025 9:31:53 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
Scientists discovered a 480-million-year-old phosphatic sponge in South China, making it the oldest known stromatoporoid and extending its fossil record by 20 million years.
International scientists have discovered the oldest known phosphatic stromatoporoid sponge in South China, dating back approximately 480 million years to the Early Ordovician period.
Stromatoporoid sponges were major reef builders during the Paleozoic era, playing a foundational role in forming reef structures—much like modern corals do today. Their significance peaked from the late Middle Ordovician to the Devonian period, a time when reef ecosystems transitioned from being dominated by microbial communities to those built primarily by skeletal organisms.
Until now, stromatoporoid reefs were believed to have appeared suddenly in the late Darriwilian period (around 460 million years ago), leading to questions about their origins and early evolutionary history.
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Thin section photographs of Lophiostroma leizunia.Credit: Chinese Academy of Sciences
Another one from the 'On Deck' pile.
TWEEEEEEET!
Biblical timeline violation.
Yet, at the microscopic level, the cellular structure is identical to that of modern cells meaning...?
If you think a 480 million year old sponge is going to rewrite history, just wait until they find a 390 million year old rubber ducky.
Does the sponge wear Squarepants?
The chicoms aren’t sponge-worthy.
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“Sponge” is a slang word, maybe somewhat outdated, for a human leech, someone who absorbs the money of others without offering anything in return.
You know...a democrat.
do they really know how old it is ?
it might be 480,065, 371 years old.
pfft.
more godless commie darwinist worshiping secular humanist guesses pulled directly from their penumbra's.
I don’t think there were men back then, let alone sponge-worthy men.
I found one of those in a gas station restroom once..............
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