This mentioned taxonomy is an attempt to make an conclusive assignment from the different classifications of various scientists. Because the taxonomy may change due to the latest investigative methods and other findings, our map is a guide only.
V. Frisone, 2016 - A highly diverse siliceous sponge fauna (Porifera: Hexactinellida, Demospongiae) from the Eocene of north-eastern Italy: systematics andpalaeoecology - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (14), 949-1002 (journal article, English)
S. Schneider, 2013 - Silicified sea life – Macrofauna and palaeoecology of the Neuburg Kieselerde Member (Cenomanian to Lower Turonian Wellheim Formation, Bavaria, southern Germany) - Acta Geologica Polonica (63), 555-610 (journal article, English)
R. K. Bambach, 2007 - Supplement to Autecology and the filling of ecospace: Key metazoan radiations - Palaeontology (50), 1-22 (journal article, English)
R. M. Finks, 2004 - Porifera (Demospongea, Hexactinellida, Heteractinida, Calcarea) - Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part E, Revised (E), 1-872 (serial monograph, English)
W. Kiessling, 2003 - Personal data - (), - (unpublished, English)
J. J. Sepkoski, Jr., 2002 - A compendium of fossil marine animal genera - Bulletins of American Paleontology (363), 1-560 (serial monograph, English)
A. Pisera, 1997 - Upper Jurassic siliceous sponges from the Swabian Alb: taxonomy and paleoecology - Palaeontologia Polonica (57), 3-216 (serial monograph, English)
J. K. Rigby, 1989 - Middle Silurian Ludlovian and Wenlockian sponges from Baillie-Hamilton and Cornwallis Islands, Arctic Canada - Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin (391), 1-69 (serial monograph, English)
J. K. Rigby, 1988 - The first reported occurrence of the demosponge Haplistion in the Permian Toroweap Formation - Brigham Young University Geology Studies (35), 9-13 (journal article, English)
J. K. Rigby, 1988 - Late Ordovician sponges from the Malongulli Formation of central New South Wales, Australia - Palaeontographica Americana (56), 1-147 (serial monograph, English)
C. Brimaud, 1986 - Les spongiaires siliceux du Tortonien des Betiques (Miocene de l'Espagne du Sud): especes nouvelles ou peu connues, I: Choristides et Lithistides [Tortonian siliceous sponges from the Betics (Miocene of southern Spain): new or little known species, I: Cho - Bulletin du Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, C (8), 293-341 (journal article, French)
J. Trammer, 1982 - Lower to Middle Oxfordian sponges of the Polish Jura - Acta Geologica Polonica (32), 1-39 (journal article, English)
H. Hurcewicz, 1982 - Permian sponges from brachiopod cherts at Hornsund, Spitsbergen - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (27), 85-114 (journal article, English)
J. K. Rigby, 1979 - Sponge fauna of the Upper Silurian Read Bay Formation, Somerset Island, District of Franklin, Arctic Canada - (53), 587-627 (journal article, English)
J. K. Rigby, 1973 - Permian sponges from western Ellesmere Island, arctic Canada - Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences (10), 1431-1443 (journal article, English)
A. Siedlecka, 1970 - Investigations of Permian cherts and associated rocks in southern Spitsbergen part II - sponges and problematic fossil-bodies from Permian cherty rocks in Spitsbergen - Norsk Polarinstitutt Skrifter (147), 71-86 (journal article, English)
J. K. Rigby, 1970 - Mississippian and Pennsylvanian sponges from the Ouachita Mountains of Oklahoma - Journal of Paleontology (44), 816-832 (journal article, English)
H. Hurcewicz, 1968 - Siliceous sponges from the Upper Cretaceous of Poland, part II: Monaxonia and Triaxonia - Acta Palaeontologica Polonica (13), 3-96 (journal article, English)
W. Wagner, 1963 - Kieselschwämme und Schwamm-Ökologie im Korallenkalk des oberen Malm von Laisacker bei Neuburg an der Donau [Siliceous sponges and sponge ecology in the coral limestones from the Upper Jurassic of Laisacker near Neuburg/Donau] - Mitteilungen der Bayerischen Staatssammlung für Paläontologie und historische Geologie (3), 1-20 (journal article, German)
L. Lagneau-Herenger, 1962 - Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Cretace inferieur - Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France (95), 1-252 (serial monograph, French)
R. M. Finks, 1960 - Late Paleozoic sponge faunas of the Texas region: The siliceous sponges - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History (120), 1-160 (serial monograph, English)
R. H. King, 1943 - New Carboniferous and Permian sponges - Kansas State Geological Survey Bulletin (47), 1-36 (journal article, English)
L. Moret, 1924 - Contribution a l'etude des spongiaires siliceux du Miocene de l'Algerie [Miocene siliceous sponges from Algeria] - Memoires de la Societe Geologique de France (1), 1-32 (serial monograph, French)
A. Schrammen, 1910 - Die Kieselspongien der oberen Kreide von Nordwestdeutschland, Teil 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia und Silicea incert. sedis [Upper Cretaceous sponges from north-western Germany, part 1 Tetraxonia, Monaxonia and Silicea incert. sedis] - Palaeontographica, Supplement (5), 1-175 (serial monograph, German)
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