†family Sporadopylidae Schrammen 1937 (glass sponge)

Hexactinellida - Lychniscosa - Sporadopylidae

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

Sister taxa: Aulophax, Callodictyidae, Callodictyonidae, Calyptrellidae, Camerospongiidae, Cavispongia, Coeloptychidae, Cypelliidae, Dactylocalycidae, Dracolychnus, Etheridgea, Leucopsacasiidae, Pachyrachis, Pachyteichismatidae, Plectascus, Polyblastidiidae, Rhizopoteronopsis, Rhizopterion, Sclerokalia, Sestrocladia, Ventriculitidae, Xylospongia, Triadocoelia

Subtaxa: Favispongia Sestrodictyon Xenoschrammenum

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Type: Favispongia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (15 collections), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (2)

• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (14), India (1), Poland (22), Spain (3)

Total: 61 collections including 84 occurrences

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