Hydnoceras (glass sponge)

Hexactinellida - Reticulosa - Dictyospongiidae

Parent taxon: Hydnoceratinae according to R. M. Finks and J.K. Rigby 2004

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Botryodictya, Ceratodictya, Cleodictya, Clepsydrospongia, Hydnoangulus, Hydnocerina, Protoprisma, Rhabdosispongia, Tylodictya

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at GSC 68072, Station 529NBa, Bluff Island (Devonian of Manitoba)

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