Family Geodiidae Gray 1867 (demosponge)
Demospongiae - Ancorinida - Geodiidae
Parent taxon: Ancorinida according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
See also Rigby and Smith 1992
Sister taxa: Ancorinidae, Paelospongiidae
Type: Geodia
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Portugal (1 collection), Slovakia (1), Spain (3)
• Oligocene of North Atlantic (4)
• Eocene of Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (11), United States (1: North Carolina)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Germany (2), Poland (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Jurassic of Germany (1), Portugal (1), the United Kingdom (4)
Total: 35 collections including 38 occurrences