Hexactinellida - Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Full reference: A. Schrammen. 1912. Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida) [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 2 Triaxonia (Hexactinellida)]. Palaeontographica, Supplement 5:176-385
Parent taxon: Leptophragmatinae according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Leptophragma, Leptophragmella, Pleurostoma, Pseudoguettardia, Ptychocoetis, Strephinia
Subtaxa: Ptychodesia papillata
Type: Ptychodesia papillata
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Germany (1 collection), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 2 collections each including a single occurrence
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