Eudea Lamouroux 1821 (calcareous sponge)

Calcarea - Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae

Synonyms: Conispongia, Epeudea , Orispongia Quenstedt 1877

Parent taxon: Holcospongiinae according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Actinospongia, Astrospongia, Calicia, Enaulofungia, Holcospongia, Mammillopora, Oculospongia, Tremospongia, Tretocalia

Subtaxa: Eudea cupani Eudea gracilis Eudea grandi Eudea guttata Eudea incrustans Eudea maxima Eudea perforata Eudea pisum Eudea polymorpha Eudea rhacos Eudea rosa Eudea siciliana Eudea tuberculata

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Switzerland (1 collection)

• Jurassic of France (2), Germany (9), India (1), Iran (2), Italy (2), Poland (3), Portugal (3), Romania (2)

• Triassic of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Italy (10)

• Permian of the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 38 collections including 54 occurrences

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