Geodia Lamarck 1815 (demosponge)
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Demospongiae - Ancorinida - Geodiidae
Parent taxon: Geodiinae according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
See also Rigby and Smith 1992 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Caminus, Conciliaspongia, Cydonium, Geodiopsis, Geoditesia, Pachymatisma, Rhaxella, Rhaxelloides
Subtaxa: Geodia avicula Geodia harmatuki
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Portugal (1 collection), Spain (3)
• Oligocene of North Atlantic (4)
• Eocene of Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Poland (1)
• Jurassic of Portugal (1)
Total: 24 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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