Superfamily Azoricoidea Sollas 1888 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Spirosclerophorida

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

Sister taxa: Haplistiidae, Laosciadia, Platychoniidae, Platychoniodea, Scleritodermatoidea, Sentinelia

Subtaxa: Azoricidae Cnemidiastridae

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Type: Azorica

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of Algeria (2 collections), Spain (4)

• Eocene of Italy (1)

• Cretaceous of Czechia (2), France (1), Germany (12), Greece (1), Poland (5), Spain (2)

• Jurassic of France (3), Germany (14), India (1), Poland (67), Spain (2)

Total: 117 collections including 257 occurrences

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