Demospongiae - Hadromerida - Suberitidae
2015 Treatise volume 4 considers Chaetetes a form genus.
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Parent taxon: Suberitidae according to R. R. West et al. 2013
See also Hill 1981, Sepkoski 2002 and West et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Calcisuberites, Chaetetopsis, Rhopaloconus, Suberites
Subtaxa: Chaetetes (Boswellia) Chaetetes (Pseudoseptifer) Chaetetes eximius Chaetetes fructicosa Chaetetes mackrothii Chaetetes milleporaceus Chaetetes tabuliporoides Chaetetes thomsoni
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Austria (1 collection), Chile (29), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (1), Morocco (5), Spain (1)
• Triassic of Austria (2), Italy (1)
• Permian of Italy (1), Pakistan (1), Tunisia (3), United States (2: 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: 204 collections including 214 occurrences
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