Psilocalyx (glass sponge)

Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Tretodictyidae

Invalid subtaxa: Epaphroditus Schrammen 1937 [replaced name], Nitidus de Laubenfels 1955

Parent taxon: Tretodictyinae according to R.E.H. Reid 2004

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Auloplax, Hexactinella, Prohexactinella, Ramalmerina, Sclerothamnopsis, Tretodictyum

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at CH/f63a Tutuiri Stream, Chatham Island (Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand)

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