Favispongia Quenstedt 1878 (glass sponge)

Hexactinellida - Lychniscosa - Sporadopylidae

Synonym: Sporadopyle Zittel 1877 [objective synonym]

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

See also Lagneau-Herenger 1962 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Sestrodictyon, Xenoschrammenum

Subtaxa: Sporadopyle obliqua Sporadopyle pusilla

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Type: Scyphia obliqua

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (8 collections)

• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (10), India (1), Poland (13), Spain (1)

Total: 36 collections including 49 occurrences

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