Demospongiae - Tetralithistida - Siphoniidae
Full reference: A. Schrammen. 1910. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia und Silicea incert. sedis [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia and Silicea incert. sedis]. Palaeontographica, Supplement 5:1-175
Belongs to Phymatella according to A. Schrammen 1910
Sister taxa: Phymatella bulbosa, Phymatella heteropora, Phymatella intumescens, Phymatella irregularis, Phymatella nodosa, Phymatella reticulata, Phymatella sphaeroides
Type specimen: Its type locality is Halberstadt, which is in a Turonian offshore shelf marl in the "Scaphiten-Pläner" Formation of Germany
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Halberstadt
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