Platysphaerocoelia Boiko et al. 1991 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Vaceletida

Full reference: E. V. Boiko, G. V. Belyaeva, and I. T. Zhuravleva. 1991. Sphinktozoa Phanerozoya Territorii SSSR [Phanerozoic Sphinctozoa of the Territory of the USSR] 1-224

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

See also Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 2015

Sister taxon: Polytubithalamiidae

Subtaxa: Platysphaerocoelia aksuensis

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Dzhilgakochusu reef (Triassic of Tajikistan)

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