Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Farreidae
Parent taxon: Hexactinosa according to R.E.H. Reid 2004
See also Rigby and Albi 1996 and Worheide et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Aphrocallistidae, Aulocalycidae, Auloplacidae, Caesaria, Carinthiaspongus, Caseispongia, Clavularia, Cribrospongiidae, Cystispongiidae, Emplocidae, Euretidae, Euryplegmatidae, Furcicanalis, Idiodictyon, Imbricareola, Laocaetis, Misonia, Multiloqua, Mysterium, Octobrum, Pileolitoidea, Pillaraspongioidea, Polysyge, Porospongia, Rhogostomium, Rhombedonium, Scopularia, Scotospongia, Staurodermatidae, Tesselispongia, Tremaphorus, Tretodictyidae, Vermifistula, Xenoschrammenus
Subtaxa: Chonodictyon Farrea Hormathospongia
Type: Farrea
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of United States (1: California collection)
• Oligocene of Costa Rica (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of Germany (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (1: California)
Total: 15 collections each including a single occurrence