Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Farreidae

Full reference: J. K. Rigby, P. Embree, and M. Murphy. 1996. An unusual Upper Cretaceous (Santonian) hexactinellid sponge from the Great Valley sequence, western Sacramento Valley, northern California. Journal of Paleontology 70(5):713-717

Parent taxon: Farreidae according to J. K. Rigby et al. 1996

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Chonodictyon, Farrea

Subtaxa: Hormathospongia dictyota

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Type: Hormathospongia dictyota

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Sand Creek (Cretaceous of California)

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