Gillettia Lagneau-Herenger 1962 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Lithistida

Full reference: L. Lagneau-Herenger. 1962. Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur. Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France 95:1-252

Parent taxon: Lithistida according to J. J., Jr. Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Achrochordonia, Anomocladina, Bothoteca, Callipelta, Cupulina, Hippalimus, Homophymia, Lithistida wiedeyi, Megalithistida, Monalithistida, Orchocladina, Phymatellidae, Psarodictyon, Pyrogochonia, Scleritodermidae, Spirosclerophorida, Tetralithistida

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Demascota well (Cretaceous of North Atlantic)

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