Parent taxon: Demospongiae according to R. R. West et al. 2015
See also Hill 1981 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Agelasida, Atrochaetetes, Bauneia, Burgundiidae, Ceractinomorpha, Chaetetida, Chondrosida, Choristida, Clavaxinellida, Consinocodium, Desmacellidae, Dictyonellidae, Guadalupiida, Hadromerida, Halichondrida, Haplosclerida, Hazeliidae, Hemiasterellidae, Heteroscleromorpha, Infexiostella, Janussenia, Karatubulus, Keratosa, Labyrinthus, Lithistida, Lovcenipora, Meandripetra, Metschnikowia, Monaxonida, Myxospongiae, Operculospongia, Paraaplysinofibria, Permosphincta, Petrosina, Poecilosclerida, Polymastidae, Ptychochaetetes, Raspailiidae, Riasanospongia, Scopalinidae, Spongillina, Spongiopsammia, Stelligeridae, Tabulospongida, Tetractinellida, Tetractinomorpha, Timeidae, Trachycladidae, Vauxiidae, Verticillitida
Subtaxa: Blastochaetetes bathonicus Blastochaetetes capilliformis Blastochaetetes dresnayi Blastochaetetes reitneri Blastochaetetes venezuelensis Blastochaetetes zaafranensis
Type: Blastochaetetes reitneri
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1 collection), France (1), Mexico (1), Spain (2), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of China (1)
• Jurassic of China (1), Portugal (5), Romania (1), Tunisia (1)
• Triassic of Indonesia (2), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (3), Slovenia (2), Türkiye (2)
Total: 25 collections including 28 occurrences
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