Hexactinellida - Lyssacinosa - Stiodermatidae

Full reference: J. K. Rigby and B. J. Maher. 1995. Age of the hexactinellid beds of the Roberts Mountains Formation, Snake Mountains, Nevada, and additions to the Silurian sponge fauna. Journal of Paleontology 69(6):1020-1029

Parent taxon: Stiodermatidae according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acanthactinella, Astroconia, Dermospheroidalis, Hyalostelia, Itararella, Protohyalostella, Rhakistella, Rigbykia, Stioderma, Thoracospongia, Uralonema

Subtaxa: Divaricospongia dilata

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Type: Divaricospongia dilata

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Loomis Creek, Snake Mountains (Silurian of Nevada)

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