Hexactinellida - Reticulosa - Dictyospongiidae
Parent taxon: Dictyospongioidea according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
See also Rigby and von Bitter 2005
Sister taxa: Docodermatidae, Stereodictyidae
Subtaxa: Calathospongiinae Diagonodictya Dictyospongiinae Hydnoceratinae Microstaurella Physospongiinae Prismodictyinae Thysanodictyinae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (5: Texas collections)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), United States (20: Alabama, Illinois, Indiana, Oklahoma)
• Devonian of Canada (3: Alberta, Manitoba), France (1), Germany (1), Ghana (1), United States (5: New York, Pennsylvania)
• Silurian of Canada (2: British Columbia, Nunavut)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), Canada (1: Manitoba), the United Kingdom (1)
• Cambrian of China (5)
• Delamaran of Canada (2: British Columbia)
Total: 49 collections including 70 occurrences