Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Aphrocallistidae
Parent taxon: Hexactinosa according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
See also Worheide et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Aulocalycidae, Auloplacidae, Caesaria, Carinthiaspongus, Caseispongia, Clavularia, Cribrospongiidae, Cystispongiidae, Emplocidae, Euretidae, Euryplegmatidae, Farreidae, Furcicanalis, Idiodictyon, Imbricareola, Laocaetis, Misonia, Multiloqua, Mysterium, Octobrum, Pileolitoidea, Pillaraspongioidea, Polysyge, Porospongia, Rhogostomium, Rhombedonium, Scopularia, Scotospongia, Staurodermatidae, Tesselispongia, Tremaphorus, Tretodictyidae, Vermifistula, Xenoschrammenus
Subtaxa: Aphrocallistes Druidia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Brazil (4 collections), Japan (3), Spain (3)
• Oligocene of Germany (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Eocene of Spain (1), Ukraine (2), United States (10: North Carolina, Washington)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1)
• Cretaceous of Denmark (1), France (2), Germany (8), Greece (1), Poland (15), the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 56 collections including 78 occurrences