Family Eiffeliidae Rigby 1986 (sponge)

Heteractinida - Octactinellida - Eiffeliidae

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

See also Skovsted 2006

Sister taxa: Astraeospongiidae, Nuchidae, Wewokellidae

Subtaxa: Astraeoconus Chilcaia Eiffelia Eiffelospongia Gondekia Petaloptyon Toquimiella Zangerlispongia

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Type: Eiffelia

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Carboniferous of United States (1: Illinois collection)

• Devonian of Canada (1: Ontario), Germany (1), United States (1: New York)

• Ordovician of Argentina (3), the United Kingdom (1)

• Cambrian of Australia (29), Canada (2: Brithish Columbia, British Columbia), China (5), Greenland (2), Guinea (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (12), Kyrgyzstan (5), Spain (2), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Delamaran of Canada (12: British Columbia), Jordan (1)

• Ordian of Australia (1)

Total: 84 collections including 110 occurrences

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