Hexactinellida - Lyssacinosa - Pyruspongiidae

Full reference: J. K. Rigby. 1971. Sponges of the Ordovician Cat Head Member, Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba. Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 202:35-79

Parent taxon: Pyruspongiidae according to R. M. Finks and J.K. Rigby 2004

See also Rigby 1971 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxon: Wongaspongia

Subtaxa: Pyruspongia camella Pyruspongia ruga

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Type: Pyruspongia ruga

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at McBeth Point-Cat Head-Lynx Point, Lake Winnipeg (Ordovician of Manitoba)

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