Demospongiae - Agelasida - Aphrosalpingidae
Parent taxon: Agelasida according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
See also Rigby et al. 1994 and Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 2015
Sister taxa: Actinostromarianinidae, Actinostromariidae, Amphorithalamiidae, Angullongiidae, Astroscleridae, Auriculospongiidae, Blastoporella, Catenispongiidae, Cliefdenellidae, Columnocoelia, Cryptocoeliidae, Exotubispongiidae, Fissispongiidae, Fluegelispongites, Girtycoeliidae, Girtyocoeliidae, Globucatenulaiidae, Glomocystospongiidae, Guadalupiidae, Incertuspongia, Intrasporeocoeliidae, Kemeria, Maeandrostiidae, Milleporellidae, Noritubispongiidae, Olangocoeliidae, Palermocoeliidae, Parastylothalamiidae, Pharetrospongiidae, Phragmocoeliidae, Polyedridae, Preperonidellidae, Radiotrabeculoporidae, Sebargasiidae, Sestrostomellidae, Sobralispongia, Solenolmiidae, Sphaeropontiidae, Spicidae, Stellispongiellidae, Tabasiidae, Tataouinella, Tenuipariespongia, Thamnonema, Thaumastocoeliidae, Virgolidae
Subtaxa: Fistulospongininae Palaeoschadinae Vesicocauliinae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (8 collections), Canada (1: Yukon), Germany (3), Greece (2), Hungary (3), Italy (11), Slovakia (14), Slovenia (5), Turkey (1)
• Permian of Venezuela (1)
• Carboniferous of Austria (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Alaska)
• Silurian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories), the Russian Federation (1), United States (18: Alaska)
• Ordovician of United States (12: Alaska, California)
Total: 83 collections including 120 occurrences