Blastochaetetes Dietrich 1919 (demosponge)

Demospongiae

Parent taxon: Demospongiae according to R. R. West et al. 2015

See also Hill 1981 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Agelasida, Atrochaetetes, Bauneia, Burgundiidae, Ceractinomorpha, Chaetetida, Chondrosida, Choristida, Clavaxinellida, Consinocodium, Desmacellidae, Dictyonellidae, Epipolasida, Guadalupiida, Hadromerida, Halichondrida, Haplosclerida, Hemiasterellidae, Heteroscleromorpha, Infexiostella, Janussenia, Karatubulus, Keratosa, Lithistida, Lovcenipora, Meandripetra, Metschnikowia, Myxospongiae, Operculospongia, Paraaplysinofibria, Permosphincta, Petrosina, Poecilosclerida, Polymastidae, Ptychochaetetes, Raspailiidae, Riasanospongia, Scopalinidae, Spongillina, Spongiopsammia, Stelligeridae, Tabulospongida, Tetractinellida, Tetractinomorpha, Timeidae, Trachycladidae, Vauxiidae, Verticillitida

Subtaxa: Blastochaetetes bathonicus Blastochaetetes capilliformis Blastochaetetes dresnayi Blastochaetetes venezuelensis Blastochaetetes zaafranensis

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Type: Chaetetes capilliformis

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1 collection), France (1), Greece (1), Spain (2), Venezuela (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of China (1)

• Jurassic of China (1), Portugal (5), Romania (1), Tunisia (1)

• Triassic of Indonesia (2), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (3), Slovenia (2), Turkey (2)

Total: 25 collections including 28 occurrences

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