Research on turbulence and fluid dynamics in an extinct sponge from the Creatous period, ca 80 million years ago, Plocoscyphia (probably Plocoscyphia Roemeri?)
The inspiration for this repository comes from a mix of fossil examples of the sponge found in southern Sweden, Skåne and the work of an American physicist at the University of Chicago, William T. Irvine.
Article about Irvines work in Quanta Magazine: https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-unexpected-twist-lights-up-the-secrets-of-turbulence-20200903/
If anything of significance is found, William will be contacted and pointed to this repository.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plocoscyphia (general)
http://www.cretaceous.de/Plocoscyphia.html (images)
https://www.mindat.org/taxon-4580782.html (taxonomy/classification)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexactinellid (Class:Hexactinellid - glass sponges 450-900m depth, fused spicules, may live up to 15.000 yrs)
https://www.quantamagazine.org/an-unexpected-twist-lights-up-the-secrets-of-turbulence-20200903/
https://physics.uchicago.edu/people/profile/william-t.m.-irvine/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ja886GtHlcE&ab_channel=TheUniversityofChicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_18avidXxqY
http://irvinelab.uchicago.edu/
https://www.nature.com/articles/nphys2560 (Nature 2013, paywall article)
http://irvinelab.uchicago.edu/images/DFD2013_final.mp4 (2013)
https://www.pnas.org/content/111/43/15350 (2013)
http://irvinelab.uchicago.edu/papers/2010Irvine.pdf (2010)
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqtnr4JQQ0N26YyXjmDkVTw (Irvine Lab @ UChicago, youtube channel)
https://github.com/Identity-numbers/plocoscyphia/tree/master/Images (photographer:Linus Jarbo; ___location found: Sweden, Skåne)
Hydrodynamics of the leucon sponge pump https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rsif.2018.0630
The Sponge Pump: The Role of Current Induced Flow in the Design of the Sponge Body Plan https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0027787
Effects of Sediment on Glass Sponges (Porifera, Hexactinellida) and projected effects on Glass Sponge Reefs https://leyslab.weebly.com/uploads/5/4/9/4/54947267/effects_of_sediment_on_glass_sponges__porifera_hexactinellida__and_projected_effects_on_glass_sponge_reefs.pdf
In situ feeding and metabolism of glass sponges (Hexactinellida, Porifera) studied ina deep temperate fjord with a remotely operated submersible https://aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.4319/lo.2007.52.1.0428
Size independent selective filtration of ultraplankton by hexactinellid glass sponges https://www.int-res.com/articles/ame2006/45/a045p181.pdf
Ecophysiology of glass sponge reefs by Amanda S. Kahn https://era.library.ualberta.ca/items/c7e5f5b6-3e82-4159-8d5b-0516ebaba930/view/b3b2b332-eaf5-4e4f-8020-8c21feb1b6ba/Kahn_Amanda_S_201605_PhD.pdf
Sponge Density and Distribution Constrained by Fluid Forcing in the Deep Sea https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmars.2020.00395/full