†Brachiaster claudelevii Pisera and Bitner 2007 (demosponge)
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Demospongiae - Pachastrellida - Pachastrellidae
Full reference: A. Pisera and M. A. Bitner. 2007. The sponge genus Brachiaster (Pachastrellidae, Demospongiae) and its first known fossil representative, from the Late Eocene of southwestern Australia. Alcheringa 31(4):365-373
Belongs to Brachiaster according to A. Pisera and M. A. Bitner 2007
Sister taxa: none
Type specimen: Its type locality is Hammersley River, which is in an Eocene shallow subtidal mudstone in the Pallinup Formation of Australia
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Hammersley River
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