†family Archaeopharetridae Bedford and Bedford 1936 (archaeocyath sponge)
Archaeocyatha - Archaeocyathida - Archaeopharetridae
Parent taxon: Archaeocyathoidea according to F. Debrenne et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Archaeocyathidae, Archaeosyconidae
Subtaxa: Archaeopharetra Dictyosycon Markocyathus Protopharetra Spirocyathella
Type: Archaeopharetra
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Antarctica (1 collection), Australia (5), Canada (7: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Yukon), China (7), Falkland Islands (Malvinas) (1), France (1), Germany (4), Italy (13), Mexico (5), Mongolia (6), Morocco (20), the Russian Federation (56), Spain (6), United States (8: California, Nevada)
Total: 140 collections including 204 occurrences