Demospongiae - Clavulina - Clionaidae
Parent taxon: Clionaidae according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Alectona, Clionoides, Clionolithes, Entobia, Filuroda, Palaeosabella, Runia, Thoosa
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: stationary boring suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of United States (15: California, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia collections)
• Pliocene of Australia (1), Belgium (1)
• Miocene of Egypt (1), Poland (1), Spain (1), United States (1: Rhode Island)
• Oligocene of Jamaica (1)
• Eocene of Germany (1), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Paleocene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (205: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)
• Jurassic of Germany (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Triassic of Germany (1)
• Carboniferous of United States (1: Oklahoma)
Total: 242 collections including 246 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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