Discosiphonella Inai 1936 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Agelasida - Guadalupiidae

Synonyms: Ascosymplegma Rauff 1938, Cystauletes King 1943

Parent taxon: Guadalupiidae according to B. Senowbari-Daryan and J. K. Rigby 2015

See also Boiko et al. 1991, Finks et al. 2004, Senowbari-Daryan et al. 2007 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Cystothalamia, Diecithalamia, Exovasa, Guadalupia, Incisimura, Lemonea, Polyphymaspongia, Praethalamopora

Subtaxa: Cystauletes grossa Cystauletes kingi Cystauletes lercarensis Cystauletes mammilosus Cystauletes orientalis Cystauletes primoriensis Cystauletes ribuzuoensis Cystauletes squamilis Cystauletes typica Discosiphonella iranica Discosiphonella minima Discosiphonella primorica

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Triassic of Austria (2 collections), Italy (3), Japan (1), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (3), Turkey (4), United States (4: Nevada, Oregon)

• Permian of China (11), Greece (1), Iran (1), Italy (3), the Russian Federation (6), Thailand (1), Tunisia (15), United States (38: New Mexico)

• Carboniferous of Japan (1), Spain (2)

Total: 97 collections including 104 occurrences

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