Demospongiae - Spirosclerophorida - Haplistiidae

Full reference: J. K. Rigby and B. D. E. Chatterton. 1989. Middle Silurian Ludlovian and Wenlockian sponges from Baillie-Hamilton and Cornwallis Islands, Arctic Canada. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 391:1-69

Parent taxon: Haplistiidae according to J. K. Rigby and B. D. E. Chatterton 1989

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Boonderooia, Chaunactis, Columellaespongia, Crawneya, Haplistion, Kazania, Lewinia, Monarchopemmatites, Mortieria, Nipterella, Oremo, Pemmatites, Radiatospongia, Rhaphidhistia, Taplowia, Varneycoelia, Warrigalia

Subtaxa: Parodospongia euhydra

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Type: Parodospongia euhydra

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at 97.1 m height of section BH2, Cape Phillips Fm., Baillie-Hamilton Island, Northw (Silurian of Nunavut)

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