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Shaily Rahman

Institute of Arctic and Alpine ResearchORCID 0000-0002-3912-7258Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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PaleontologybioRxivPreprintJan 30, 2026

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

Sandy Cui, Nicole Mizrahi, Shaily Rahman…·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.

DOI 10.64898/2026.01.27.702024

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