Eospongiidae

Classification
Phylum: Porifera
Class: Demospongia
Order: Lithistida
Family: Eospongiidae de Laubenfels, 1955
Cincinnatian Genera: Heterospongia

Geologic Range
Cambrian – Silurian

Common Paleoecology
Eospongiidae is an extinct family of stationary epifaunal suspension feeders

Description of the Family

  • Very unsymmetrical desmas
  • Poorly preserved
  • Resemble anomocladine genera
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Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology, Part E (1955):

  • Lithistids with very unsymmetrical desmas, generally resembling anomocladine forms but difficult to classify; mostly preserved poorly.

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Heterospongia