Demospongiae - Verticillitida - Colospongiidae
Parent taxon: Verticillitida according to B. Senowbari-Daryan and J. K. Rigby 2015
See also Amirhassankhani et al. 2014, Finks et al. 2004, Rigby et al. 2008, Rigby et al. 1998, Senowbari-Daryan and Stanley 1998 and Stanley 1998
Sister taxa: Annaecoeliidae, Cheilosporitiidae, Cribrothalamiidae, Gigantothalamiidae, Salzburgiidae, Tebagathalamiidae, Verticillitidae
Subtaxa: Colospongiinae Corymbospongiinae Guangxispongia Kashanellinae
Type: Colospongia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (23 collections), Canada (2: Yukon), Germany (4), Greece (3), Hungary (9), Indonesia (1), Iran (14), Italy (21), Japan (2), Malaysia (1), Oman (3), Peru (1), Romania (2), the Russian Federation (2), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (8), Slovenia (2), Spain (1), Tajikistan (9), Thailand (2), Turkey (6), the United Arab Emirates (2), United States (7: Alaska, Nevada, Oregon)
• Permian of Azerbaijan (1), China (78), Croatia (1), Greece (1), Iran (2), Italy (4), Oman (4), the Russian Federation (15), Slovenia (4), Thailand (1), Tunisia (35), Ukraine (3), United States (120: New Mexico, Texas), Venezuela (3)
• Carboniferous of Austria (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Yukon), China (1), United States (12: Alaska, California)
• Cambrian of China (1)
Total: 415 collections including 568 occurrences