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Family Phymatellidae Schrammen 1910 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Lithistida - Phymatellidae

Parent taxon: Lithistida according to M. Kelly and J. S. Buckeridge 2005

Sister taxa: Achrochordonia, Anomocladina, Bothoteca, Callipelta, Cupulina, Gillettia, Hippalimus, Homophymia, Lithistida wiedeyi, Megalithistida, Monalithistida, Orchocladina, Psarodictyon, Pyrogochonia, Scleritodermidae, Spirosclerophorida, Tetralithistida

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at CH/f63a Tutuiri Stream, Chatham Island (Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand)

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