Parent taxon: Demospongiae according to R. R. West et al. 2015
See also Finks et al. 2004, Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 2015 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Agelasida, Atrochaetetes, Bauneia, Blastochaetetes, Burgundiidae, Ceractinomorpha, Chaetetida, Chondrosida, Choristida, Clavaxinellida, Consinocodium, Desmacellidae, Dictyonellidae, Epipolasida, Guadalupiida, Halichondrida, Haplosclerida, Hemiasterellidae, Heteroscleromorpha, Infexiostella, Janussenia, Karatubulus, Keratosa, Lithistida, Lovcenipora, Meandripetra, Metschnikowia, Myxospongiae, Operculospongia, Paraaplysinofibria, Permosphincta, Petrosina, Poecilosclerida, Polymastidae, Ptychochaetetes, Raspailiidae, Riasanospongia, Scopalinidae, Spongillina, Spongiopsammia, Stelligeridae, Tabulospongida, Tetractinellida, Tetractinomorpha, Timeidae, Trachycladidae, Vauxiidae, Verticillitida
Subtaxa: Acanthochaetetidae Cassianothalamiidae Celyphiidae Ceotinellidae Coetinellidae Ditraenella Polysiphonidae Spirastrellidae Suberitidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Vanuatu (2 collections)
• Miocene of Portugal (1)
• Oligocene of Mexico (1)
• Paleocene of France (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), France (4), Georgia (3), Germany (3), Greece (1), India (3), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (4), Ukraine (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (2)
• Jurassic of Austria (1), Canada (2: Nova Scotia), Chile (29), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (1), Morocco (5), Portugal (6), Spain (1)
• Triassic of Austria (20), Canada (1: Yukon), Germany (3), Greece (1), Hungary (6), Iran (9), Italy (36), Japan (6), Oman (5), the Russian Federation (6), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (12), Slovenia (5), Spain (1), Tajikistan (9), Turkey (6), United States (2: Oregon)
• Permian of China (3), Croatia (1), Italy (2), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (6), Slovenia (1), Thailand (1), Tunisia (6), United States (3: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (1: Nunavut), France (1), Japan (6), Mexico (2), the Russian Federation (5), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (22), United States (33: Alaska, California, Idaho, Illinois, Kansas, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Australia (2), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (8), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (12), Thailand (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Alaska), Vietnam (8)
• Silurian of China (1), Morocco (1), United States (26: New York)
• Ordovician of Canada (2: Manitoba, Quebec), China (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (7: Georgia)
• Paleozoic of United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 385 collections including 538 occurrences