Spongiomorpha Frech 1890

Hydrozoa - Spongiomorphida - Spongiomorphidae

Full reference: F. Frech. 1890. Die Korallenfauna der Trias. Palaeontographica 37:1-116

Parent taxon: Spongiomorphidae according to G. D. Stanley and B. Senowbari-Daryan 1999

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Stanley 1986

Sister taxon: Heptastylis

Subtaxa: Spongiomorpha (Heptastylopsis) Spongiomorpha acyclica Spongiomorpha asiatica Spongiomorpha globosa Spongiomorpha minor Spongiomorpha tenuis

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal carnivore-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), Germany (6)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (6)

• Jurassic of Austria (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (2), Indonesia (1), Morocco (1), Romania (1)

• Triassic of Australia (1), Austria (5), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (3: British Columbia, Yukon), East Timor (1), Hungary (2), Iran (2), Malaysia (1), Oman (1), Romania (2), Slovenia (3), Spain (1), Tajikistan (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (36: Alaska, California, Nevada, Oregon)

• Permian of China (1)

Total: 82 collections including 94 occurrences

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