Family Ancorinidae Schmidt 1870 (demosponge)
Demospongiae - Ancorinida - Ancorinidae
Parent taxon: Ancorinida according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Geodiidae, Paelospongiidae
Subtaxa: Ancorininae Stellettinae
Type: Ancorina
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Portugal (1 collection)
• Eocene of Ukraine (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Paleocene to Eocene of New Zealand (1)
• Cretaceous of Germany (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (1), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 10 collections including 16 occurrences