Demospongiae - Spirosclerophorida - Haplistiidae
Full reference: A. Siedlecka. 1970. Investigations of Permian cherts and associated rocks in southern Spitsbergen part II - sponges and problematic fossil-bodies from Permian cherty rocks in Spitsbergen. Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter 147:71-86
Belongs to Haplistion according to A. Siedlecka 1970
Sister taxa: Haplistion aeluroglossa, Haplistion apletum, Haplistion arcticum, Haplistion armstrongi, Haplistion artiense, Haplistion creswelli, Haplistion cylindricum, Haplistion diactinum, Haplistion elongatum, Haplistion frustrum, Haplistion hadrum, Haplistion latituba, Haplistion macroporum, Haplistion megalochetus, Haplistion minutum, Haplistion orientale, Haplistion regularis, Haplistion skinneri, Haplistion sphaericum
Type specimen: PMO A4617. Its type locality is Festningen, fossil horizon 12, outer Isfjorden, which is in a Roadian/Capitanian carbonate limestone in the Kapp Starostin Formation of Svalbard and Jan Mayen.
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution: found only at Festningen, fossil horizon 12, outer Isfjorden
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