Parent taxon: Demospongea according to B. Senowbari-Daryan and F. Amirhassankhani 2013
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Agelasida, Atrochaetetes, Bauneia, Blastochaetetes, Burgundiidae, Ceractinomorpha, Chaetetida, Chondrosida, Choristida, Clavaxinellida, Consinocodium, Desmacellidae, Dictyonellidae, Epipolasida, Guadalupiida, Hadromerida, Halichondrida, Haplosclerida, Hemiasterellidae, Heteroscleromorpha, Infexiostella, Janussenia, Karatubulus, Keratosa, Lithistida, Meandripetra, Metschnikowia, Myxospongiae, Operculospongia, Paraaplysinofibria, Permosphincta, Petrosina, Poecilosclerida, Polymastidae, Ptychochaetetes, Raspailiidae, Riasanospongia, Scopalinidae, Spongillina, Spongiopsammia, Stelligeridae, Tabulospongida, Tetractinellida, Tetractinomorpha, Timeidae, Trachycladidae, Vauxiidae, Verticillitida
Subtaxa: Lovcenipora iranica Lovcenipora musandamensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Indonesia (1 collection)
• Triassic of Australia (1), Austria (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Indonesia (4), Iran (1), Papua New Guinea (1), the United Arab Emirates (2)
Total: 12 collections including 14 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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