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Sclerocoelia

Demospongiae - Agelasida - Virgolidae

Taxonomy
Sclerocoelia is a genus. It is not extant.

It was assigned to Tabulospongida by Sepkoski (2002); to Virgolinae by Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby (2015); and to Agelasida by West et al. (2015).

Species lacking formal opinion data

Synonymy list
YearName and author
2002Sclerocoelia Sepkoski
2015Sclerocoelia Senowbari-Daryan and Rigby p. 392
2015Sclerocoelia West et al. p. 264

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RankNameAuthor
kingdomAnimalia()
phylumPoriferaGrant 1836
classDemospongiae(Sollas 1875)
orderAgelasidaVerrill 1907
RankNameAuthor
familyVirgolidaeTermier and Termier 1977
subfamilyVirgolinaeTermier and Termier 1977
genusSclerocoelia

If no rank is listed, the taxon is considered an unranked clade in modern classifications. Ranks may be repeated or presented in the wrong order because authors working on different parts of the classification may disagree about how to rank taxa.

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Diagnosis
No diagnoses are available
Measurements
No measurements are available
Composition: aragoniteo
Environment: marineo
Locomotion: stationaryo
Attached: yeso
Life habit: epifaunalo
Diet: suspension feedero
Vision: blindc
Reproduction: oviparouso
Created: 2007-09-07 05:16:14
Modified: 2009-05-09 20:07:15
Source: o = order, c = class
References: Whittington et al. 1997, Kiessling 2004

Age range: Julian or 237.00000 to 233.60000 Ma

Collections: one only


Time interval Ma Country or state Original ID and collection number
Julian237.0 - 233.6Italy S. hispida (34691)