Hexactinellida - Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Parent taxon: Innaecoeliida according to F. Amirhassankhani et al. 2014
See also Finks et al. 2004, Reid 2004 and Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby 2015
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Caseariinae Conicospongia Cordiospongia Craticulariinae Ecblastesia Esfahanella Laocoetidinae Leptophragmatinae Mimeticosia Paleocraticularia Periplectum Pleuroguettardia Polonospongia Synaulia Urnospongia
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Algeria (2 collections), Panama (1)
• Oligocene of Costa Rica (1)
• Eocene to Miocene of Argentina (1)
• Eocene of France (1), Italy (1), Spain (9), the United Kingdom (1), United States (9: Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Texas)
• Paleocene of United States (1: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (2), Australia (1), Czechia (3), France (23), Germany (16), Poland (8), Spain (4), the United Kingdom (11)
• Jurassic of Argentina (2), France (3), Germany (19), Italy (1), Poland (15), Portugal (4), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (5)
• Triassic of Austria (1), China (2), Iran (4)
• Devonian of Poland (3)
Total: 157 collections including 366 occurrences