Hexactinellida - Innaecoeliida - Craticulariidae
Parent taxon: Craticulariidae according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
Sister taxa: Caseariinae, Conicospongia, Cordiospongia, Ecblastesia, Esfahanella, Laocoetidinae, Leptophragmatinae, Mimeticosia, Paleocraticularia, Periplectum, Pleuroguettardia, Polonospongia, Synaulia, Urnospongia
Subtaxa: Craticularia Dictyonocoelia Diphyllospira Eutactostomium Psephosyllogus Pycnocalyptra Reticraticularia Sphenaulax
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Australia (1), France (12), Germany (4), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (2), France (3), Germany (18), Italy (1), Poland (15), Portugal (3), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (4)
• Triassic of China (2)
Total: 72 collections including 142 occurrences