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
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
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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