Calcarea - Calcaronea - Stellispongiidae
Invalid subtaxa: Coeloconia, Dendrocoelia Laube 1865, Dyoconia , Peronella Zittel 1878 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Stellispongiinae according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
See also Jell et al. 2011, Laube 1865 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amorphofungia, Amorphospongia, Blastinoidea, Conocoelia, Diaplectia, Elasmoierea, Elasmostoma, Euzittelia, Heteropenia, Lutia, Pachymura, Pachytilodia, Pareudea, Paronadella, Steinmanella, Steinmannella, Stellispongia, Trachypenia, Trachysinia, Trachysphecion
Subtaxa: Peronidella austriaca Peronidella cylindrica Peronidella dichotoma Peronidella floriceps Peronidella fluegeli Peronidella globosa Peronidella loretzi Peronidella metabronni Peronidella minima Peronidella profurcata Peronidella rosetta Peronidella subcaespitosa Peronidella tenuiparietalis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Paleocene of United States (3: New Jersey collections)
• Cretaceous to Paleogene of United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), Austria (2), France (2), Germany (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Austria (1)
• Jurassic of Austria (1), Canada (3: Nova Scotia), France (1), Germany (9), Iran (1), Italy (1), Poland (11), Portugal (3), Romania (2), Ukraine (1)
• Triassic of Australia (1), Austria (16), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Germany (2), Greece (1), Hungary (2), India (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (3), Italy (11), Japan (1), Oman (1), Peru (1), Romania (1), Slovenia (1), Thailand (1), Turkey (2), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (1: Oregon)
• Permian of China (14), Croatia (2), Iran (1), Slovenia (1)
Total: 113 collections including 139 occurrences
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