Hexactinellida - Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Synonym: Monilispongia Wu and Xiao 1989
Parent taxon: Caseariinae according to B. Senowbari-Daryan and J. K. Rigby 2015
See also Amirhassankhani et al. 2014, Finks et al. 2004 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Caucasocoelia, Dracolychnos, Innaecoelia, Pseudoverticillites
Subtaxa: Casearia alpina Casearia articulata Casearia decursiva Casearia delijanensis Casearia iranica Casearia oblata Casearia vezvanensis
Type: Spongia articulata
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Panama (1 collection)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Jurassic of France (2), Poland (1)
• Triassic of Austria (1), China (2), Iran (4)
Total: 12 collections including 19 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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