Demospongea - Agelasida - Aphrosalpingidae

Full reference: J. K. Rigby, M. H. Nitecki, C. M. Soja and R. B. Blodgett. 1994. Silurian aphrosalpingid sphinctozoans from Alaska and Russia. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 39(4):341-391

Belongs to Cystothalamiella according to J. K. Rigby et al. 1994

Sister taxa: Cystothalamiella alaskaensis, Cystothalamiella craticulata, Cystothalamiella ducta, Cystothalamiella polyducta, Cystothalamiella tuboides

Type specimen: MC-8a3-89. Its type locality is Heceta Island, which is in a Ludlow carbonate limestone in the Heceta Formation of Alaska.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder