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
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