Heteractinida - Octactinellida - Eiffeliidae
Synonym: Lenastella Missarzhevsky and Mambetov 1981
Parent taxon: Eiffeliidae according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
See also Bambach et al. 2007, Kiessling 2009, Sepkoski 2002 and Skovsted 2006
Sister taxa: Astraeoconus, Chilcaia, Eiffelospongia, Gondekia, Petaloptyon, Toquimiella, Zangerlispongia
Subtaxa: Eiffelia araniformis Eiffelia globosa Eiffelia hispanica Lenastella aculeata Lenastella mucronata Lenastella umbonata
Type: Eiffelia globosa
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Australia (29 collections), Canada (2: Brithish Columbia, British Columbia), China (5), Greenland (2), Guinea (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (12), Kyrgyzstan (5), Spain (2), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Ordian of Australia (1)
• Delamaran of Canada (10: British Columbia), Jordan (1)
Total: 74 collections including 95 occurrences
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