ammonites
Cliefdenospongia Rigby and Webby 1988 (demosponge)

Demospongea - Megalithistida - Saccospongiidae

Full reference: J. K. Rigby and B. D. Webby. 1988. Late Ordovician sponges from the Malongulli Formation of central New South Wales, Australia. Palaeontographica Americana 56:1-147

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

Sister taxa: Eochaunactis, Epiplastospongia, Haplistionella, Rugospongia, Saccospongia

Subtaxa: Cliefdenospongia lamina

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Type: Cliefdenospongia lamina

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder