Wareembaia Rigby and Webby 1988 (glass sponge)

Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Wareembaiidae

Alternative spelling: Wareembra

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: Wareembaiidae according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004

See also Rigby and Webby 1988 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Kalimnospongia

Subtaxa: Wareembaia concentrica

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Type: Wareembaia concentrica

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

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

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