Demospongiae - Chaetetida - Chaetetidae
Parent taxon: Chaetetida according to D. Hill 1981
Sister taxa: Cambrophyllum, Conochaetetes, Cryptolichenariidae, Desmidoporidae, Favosichaetetidae, Magnicanalifera, Obscurospongia, Tiverinidae
Subtaxa: Chaetetinae Chaetetiporinae Cyclochaetetes Mirispongia Moskoviinae Parabauneia Pseudoseptifer
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Morocco (1 collection), Spain (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Bulgaria (1), France (2), Georgia (1), Greece (1), Hungary (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Slovenia (1), Ukraine (2)
• Jurassic of Algeria (1), Austria (1), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Ethiopia (1), Italy (4), Morocco (1), Portugal (2), Slovenia (5)
• Triassic of India (3), Iran (2), Israel (1), Italy (4), Japan (1), Oman (1), Slovenia (5), Tajikistan (1), the United Arab Emirates (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Permian of China (7), Oman (2)
• Carboniferous of Belgium (1), France (1), Ireland (1), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), Turkey (1), Ukraine (6), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Kansas)
• Givetian of China (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (11), Australia (1), Belgium (3), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), Germany (3), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), the United Kingdom (1), Vietnam (6)
• Silurian of the Czech Republic (4)
• Ordovician of Canada (2: Nunavut, Quebec), United States (2: Alaska)
Total: 117 collections including 133 occurrences