Demospongiae - Lithistida - Streptosolenidae
Full reference: R. A. Johns. 1994. Ordovician lithistid sponges of the Great Basin. Nevada Bureau of Mines and Geology Open-File Report 94(1):1-156
Parent taxon: Orchocladina according to R. M. Finks et al. 2004
See also Rigby and Desrochers 1995
Sister taxa: Anthaspidellidae, Anthracosyconidae, Astylospongiidae, Chiastoclonellidae
Subtaxa: Allosaccus Antrospongia Aulocopella Aulocopium Aulocopoides Dendroclonella Edriospongia Eospongia Gallatinospongia Hudsonospongia Lissocoelia Orlinocyathus Ozarkocoelia Perissocoelia Streptosolen Verpaspongia Wilbernicyathus
Type: Streptosolen
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (1 collection)
• Silurian of Canada (2: Nunavut)
• Whiterockian of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (5: California)
• Chazyan of Canada (5: Quebec), United States (7: New York, Tennessee)
• Arenig of Argentina (2)
• Arenigian of Argentina (1), United States (1: Nevada)
• Ordovician of Argentina (5), Australia (4), Canada (3: British Columbia, Manitoba), China (4), United States (41: Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, Tennessee, Utah, Virginia)
• Tremadoc of Argentina (1)
• Ibexian of United States (1: Utah)
• Cambrian of Kyrgyzstan (1), United States (10: California, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, Wyoming)
Total: 95 collections including 139 occurrences