Hexactinellida - Lyssacinosa - Malumispongiidae

Full reference: J. K. Rigby and B. D. Webby. 1988. Late Ordovician sponges from the Malongulli Formation of central New South Wales, Australia. Palaeontographica Americana 56:1-147

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

See also Rigby and Webby 1988 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Malumispongium, Novocarbonella, Oncosella, Scaphiomanon, Spissiparies

Subtaxa: Walliospongia gracilis

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Type: Walliospongia gracilis

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Lower Gleesons Creek, Cliefden Caves (Ordovician of Australia)

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