Family Scleritodermatidae Sollas 1888 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Spirosclerophorida - Scleritodermatidae

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

Sister taxa: Jereicidae, Orecyta, Perimera, Plococonia, Pocillospongia, Reiswigia, Seliscothonidae, Verrucospongia

Subtaxa: Amphithelioninae Leiodorellinae Pleurophymia

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of Algeria (1 collection), Spain (1)

• Eocene of Italy (1)

• Cretaceous of Czechia (3), Germany (18), Poland (9), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (1)

• Jurassic of France (1), Germany (2), Poland (13)

Total: 52 collections including 99 occurrences

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