†family Phymaraphiniidae Schrammen 1910 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Tetralithistida - Phymaraphiniidae

Parent taxon: Tetracladina according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004

Sister taxa: Astrocladiidae, Chenendoporidae, Plinthosellidae, Polyjerea, Protetraclisidae, Radiocelliidae, Siphoniidae, Sontheimiidae, Sulcastrella, Theonellidae, Vermiculissimum

Subtaxa: Compsapsis Cycloclema Exsuperantia Lopadophorus Pholidocladia Phymaraphinia Polyrhipidium Prokaliapsis

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Type: Phymaraphinia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Eocene of Ukraine (3 collections)

• Cretaceous of France (1), Germany (11), Poland (10), Spain (3), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 29 collections including 52 occurrences

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