†subfamily Caseariinae Schrammen 1937 (glass sponge)

Hexactinellida - Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae

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

See also Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 2015

Sister taxa: Conicospongia, Cordiospongia, Craticulariinae, Ecblastesia, Esfahanella, Laocoetidinae, Leptophragmatinae, Mimeticosia, Paleocraticularia, Periplectum, Pleuroguettardia, Polonospongia, Synaulia, Urnospongia

Subtaxa: Casearia Caucasocoelia Dracolychnos Innaecoelia Pseudoverticillites

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Type: Casearia

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 21 occurrences

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