Demospongea - Protomonaxonida - Piraniidae

PaleoDB taxon number: 205899

Full reference: J. P. Botting. 2004. An exceptional Caradoc sponge fauna from the Llanfawr Quarries, central Wales and phylogenetic implications. Journal of Systematic Palaeontology 2(1):31-63

Belongs to Pirania according to J. P. Botting 2004

Sister taxa: Pirania auraeum, Pirania muricata

Type specimen: Its type locality is Llanfawr Quarry 1, Llandrindod, which is in a Sandbian offshore mudstone in the Llanfawr Mudstone Formation of the United Kingdom

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder