Demospongiae - Pachastrellida - Pachastrellidae

Full reference: A. Schrammen. 1910. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia und Silicea incert. sedis [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia and Silicea incert. sedis]. Palaeontographica, Supplement 5:1-175

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

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acanthophora, Brachiaster, Calthropellinae, Halininae, Pachastrellinae, Paropsites, Propachastrella, Youngella

Subtaxa: Helobrachium consecatum

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Type: Helobrachium consecatum

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Oberg (Cretaceous of Germany)

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