Heteractinida - Octactinellida - Astraeospongiidae

Full reference: J. K. Rigby. 1977. Constellatospongia, a new heteractinid astraeosponge from the Upper Ordovician Churchill River Group, Manitoba. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 269:131-137

Parent taxon: Astraeospongiidae according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004

See also Rigby 1977 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Asteriospongia, Astraeospongium, Blumenbachium, Contignatiospongia, Ensiferites, Kuraya, Magenia, Malluviospongia, Microastraeum, Stellarispongia

Subtaxa: Constellatospongia pervia

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Type: Constellatospongia pervia

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at GSC 81902, Herriot Creek, station 239CE (Ordovician of Manitoba)

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