†family Clionaidae d'Orbigny 1851 (demosponge)

Demospongiae - Clavulina - Clionaidae

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

See also Worheide et al. 2012

Sister taxon: Adociidae

Subtaxa: Alectona Cliona Clionoides Clionolithes Entobia Filuroda Palaeosabella Runia Thoosa

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Type: Cliona

Ecology: stationary boring suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Quaternary of Cayman Islands (1 collection), Jamaica (1), United States (16: California, Maryland, Massachusetts, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia)

• Pliocene of Australia (1), Belgium (1), Spain (2)

• Miocene of Cyprus (1), Egypt (1), France (1), India (1), Italy (2), Malta (2), Panama (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Spain (1), United States (5: California, Maryland, Rhode Island)

• Oligocene of Costa Rica (1), Jamaica (1)

• Eocene of Germany (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: North Carolina)

• Paleocene of Argentina (1), United States (1: New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of France (9), Germany (2), Hungary (1), the Marshall Islands (1), Mexico (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (209: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Delaware, Georgia, Kansas, Mississippi, Missouri, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas)

• Jurassic of France (2), Germany (2), Iran (1), Italy (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1)

• Triassic of Germany (1)

• Carboniferous of United States (3: Montana, Oklahoma)

• Devonian of Australia (9), Brazil (2), France (2), Germany (3), Morocco (1), United States (1: New York)

• Silurian of Sweden (1)

Total: 306 collections including 323 occurrences

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