Cribrospongia d'Orbigny 1849 (glass sponge)

Hexactinellida - Hexactinosa - Cribrospongiidae

Synonym: Tremadictyon Zittel 1877 [objective synonym]

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

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Andreaea, Erineum, Eubrochus, Feifelia, Gevreya, Guettardiscyphia, Haynespongia, Keuppiella, Nelumbifolium, Petalope, Polyopesia, Stereochlamis, Stichmaptyx, Tesselospongia

Subtaxa: Cribrospongia elegans Cribrospongia reticulata Tremadictyon roemeri

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of France (1 collection), Spain (1), Sweden (1)

• Jurassic of Argentina (3), France (2), Germany (11), Poland (21), Portugal (2), Romania (1), Spain (4)

• Triassic of China (1), Italy (1)

Total: 49 collections including 86 occurrences

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