Demospongiae - Spirosclerophorida - Haplistiidae
Parent taxon: Haplistiidae according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
See also Rigby and Mundy 2000 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Boonderooia, Chaunactis, Columellaespongia, Crawneya, Kazania, Lewinia, Monarchopemmatites, Mortieria, Nipterella, Oremo, Parodospongia, Pemmatites, Radiatospongia, Rhaphidhistia, Taplowia, Varneycoelia, Warrigalia
Subtaxa: Haplistion aeluroglossa Haplistion apletum Haplistion arcticum Haplistion armstrongi Haplistion artiense Haplistion creswelli Haplistion cylindricum Haplistion diactinum Haplistion elongatum Haplistion festningensis Haplistion frustrum Haplistion hadrum Haplistion latituba Haplistion macroporum Haplistion megalochetus Haplistion minutum Haplistion orientale Haplistion regularis Haplistion skinneri Haplistion sphaericum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Canada (8: British Columbia, Nunavut collections), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (8), United States (13: Arizona, Montana, Nevada, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Australia (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (12: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Nevada, Oklahoma, Utah)
• Devonian of Australia (1), United States (2: Alaska, Tennessee)
• Silurian of Canada (7: Northwest Territories, Nunavut)
• Ordovician of Australia (1)
Total: 57 collections including 76 occurrences
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