Family Seliscothonidae Schrammen 1924 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Spirosclerophorida - Seliscothonidae

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

Sister taxa: Jereicidae, Orecyta, Perimera, Plococonia, Pocillospongia, Reiswigia, Scleritodermatidae, Verrucospongia

Subtaxa: Histiodia Kaliapsis Pachyselis Phlyctia Pseudoseliscothon Rhabdotum Seliscothon Trachydictya

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Type: Seliscothon

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

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

• Eocene of Italy (1), Spain (2)

• Cretaceous of Czechia (1), Germany (16), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2)

• Jurassic of Germany (2)

Total: 33 collections including 48 occurrences

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