Hexactinellida - Lyssacinosa - Stiodermatidae
Full reference: R. M. Finks. 1960. Late Paleozoic sponge faunas of the Texas region: The siliceous sponges. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 120(1):1-160
Parent taxon: Brachiospongioidea according to D. C. Garcia-Bellido and J. K. Rigby 2004
See also Finks and Rigby 2004
Sister taxa: Brachiospongiidae, Malumispongiidae, Pseudolanciculidae, Pyruspongiidae, Toomeyospongiidae
Subtaxa: Acanthactinella Astroconia Dermospheroidalis Divaricospongia Hyalostelia Itararella Protohyalostella Rhakistella Rigbykia Stioderma Thoracospongia Uralonema
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of United States (15: New Mexico, Texas collections)
• Carboniferous of China (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (4: Arkansas, Nevada, Texas)
• Devonian of Australia (1)
• Silurian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Whiterockian of United States (2: California)
• Ordovician of Peru (1), the United Kingdom (54), United States (6: California, Nevada)
• Solvan of the Russian Federation (1)
• Ordian of Australia (1)
• Delamaran of Jordan (1)
• Cambrian of Iran (1)
Total: 92 collections including 94 occurrences