Cystothalamia Girty 1908 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Agelasida - Guadalupiidae

Synonym: Racemina Termier and Termier 1977

Full reference: G. H. Girty. 1908. The Guadalupian fauna. United States Geological Survey Professional Paper 58:1-651

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

See also Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 1988 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Diecithalamia, Discosiphonella, Exovasa, Guadalupia, Incisimura, Lemonea, Polyphymaspongia, Praethalamopora

Subtaxa: Cystothalamia adrianensis Cystothalamia conica Cystothalamia crassa Cystothalamia distefanoi Cystothalamia guadalupensis Cystothalamia irregulara Cystothalamia megacysta Cystothalamia nana Cystothalamia nodulifera Cystothalamia surmaqensis

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Type: Cystothalamia nodulifera

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Austria (1 collection), Hungary (1), Italy (1), Slovenia (1), Tajikistan (2)

• Permian of China (13), Croatia (1), Iran (1), Italy (2), the Russian Federation (6), Thailand (1), Tunisia (12), United States (21: New Mexico, Texas), Venezuela (1)

Total: 64 collections including 68 occurrences

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