Parent taxon: Hexactinellida according to G. A. Brock and B.J. Cooper 1993
See also Chacaltana and Carrera 2018, Finks et al. 2004 and Henningsmoen 1958
Sister taxa: Acanothyia, Acanothyra, Amphidiscophora, Antrispongia, Australispongia, Baccispongia, Bothroconis, Chelispongia, Crucispongia, Dictyonina, Diplopleuriana, Farreopsis, Hemidiagoniella, Heterostella, Hexasterophora, Hodsia, Innaecoeliida, Kometia, Konyriidae, Konyrium, Lonsda, Lychniscosa, Lyssacinosa, Nepheliospongia, Nephelispongia, Pachylepisma, Pinnatispongia, Rossellimorpha, Rugosoderma, Sceptrulophora, Sestrocladiella, Silicunculus, Solactiniella, Solusrectus, Spongus, Stromatidiidae
Subtaxa: Dilatispongia Holasterellidae Hyalostellidae Monakidae Pollakidae
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of the United Kingdom (1 collection)
• Jurassic of France (1)
• Triassic of Türkiye (1)
• Permian of United States (6: Texas)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (3), United States (1: Nevada)
• Devonian of Australia (2)
• Whiterockian of United States (2: California)
• Ordovician of Canada (1: Ontario), Peru (1), the United Kingdom (55), United States (6: California, Nevada)
• Cambrian of Australia (2), China (4), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 89 collections including 91 occurrences