choanite English

Meaning choanite meaning

What does choanite mean?

choanite noun

— A spongiform fossil of the historical genus Choanites, thought to resemble a petrified sea-anemone.

— Any of genus Choanites Mantell, 1822 sensu Laubenfels, 1936, accepted as Suberites Nardo, 1833, certain demosponges.