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.
J. P. Botting, 2019 - Systematic palaeontology, in A late-surviving Triassic protomonaxonid sponge from the Paris Biota (Bear Lake County, Idaho, USA) - Geobios (54), 5-11 (journal article, English)
W. Wu, 2014 - Composition and tiering of the Cambrian sponge communities - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (398), 86-96 (journal article, English)
D. C. Garcia-Bellido, 2011 - First report of Crumillospongia (Demospongea) from the Cambrian of Europe (Murero biota, Spain) - Bulletin of Geosciences (86), 641-650 (journal article, English)
M. S. Beresi, 2010 - A new demosponge, Choiaella scotica, from the Caradoc (Ordovician) of Wallace's Cast, Southern Uplands - Scottish Journal of Geology (46), 77-84 (journal article, English)
J. K. Rigby, 2010 - Middle Cambrian sponges from the Drum Mountains and House Range in western Utah - Journal of Paleontology (84), 66-78 (journal article, English)
J. K. Rigby, 2008 - Pennsylvanian sponges from thr Graford Formation, Wise County, Texas - Journal of Paleontology (82), 492-510 (journal article, English)
D. C. García-Bellido, 2007 - The Demosponge genus Leptomitus and a new species from the Middle Cambrian of Spain - (50), 467-478 (journal article, English)
J. K. Rigby, 2007 - A new demospongiid sponge from the Permian Park City Formation near Park City, Utah, USA - Neues Jahrbuch für Geologie und Paläontologie, Abhandlungen (245), 153-158 (journal article, English)
J. P. Botting, 2007 - "Cambrian" demosponges in the Ordovician of Morocco: Insights into the early evolutionary history of sponges - Geobios (40), 737-748 (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)
J. K. Rigby, 2007 - Hexactinellid and associated sponges from the upper Reef Trail Member of the Bell Canyon Formation, southern Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas - Journal of Paleontology (81), 1241-1256 (journal article, English)
J. K. Rigby, 2006 - Sponges from the Reef Trail Member of the Upper Guadalupian (Permian) Bell Canyon Formation, Guadalupe Mountains National Park, Texas - Journal of Paleontology (80), 1-42 (journal article, English)
J. K. Rigby, 2005 - Sponges and associated fossils from the Pennsylvanian Carbondale Formation of northwestern Illinois - Journal of Paleontology (79), 460-468 (journal article, English)
S. Xiao, 2005 - Articulated sponges from the Lower Cambrian Hetang Formation in southern Anhui, South China: their age and implications for the early evolution of sponges - Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology (220), 89-117 (journal article, English)
J. P. Botting, 2004 - An exceptional Caradoc sponge fauna from the Llanfawr Quarries, central Wales and phylogenetic implications - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology (2), 31-63 (journal article, English)
X.-G. Hou, 2004 - - The Cambrian Fossils of Chengjiang, China: the Flowering of Early Animal Life (), - (book/book chapter, English)
J. K. Rigby, 2004 - Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and Stephen Formations, British Columbia - Royal Ontario Museum Contributions in Science (1), 1-155 (serial monograph, English)
R. M. Finks, 2004 - Porifera (Demospongea, Hexactinellida, Heteractinida, Calcarea) - Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology Part E, Revised (E), 1-872 (serial monograph, English)
J. J. Sepkoski, Jr., 2002 - A compendium of fossil marine animal genera - Bulletins of American Paleontology (363), 1-560 (serial monograph, English)
J. K. Rigby, 1998 - Silurian hexactinellid sponges from northern British Columbia, Canada - Journal of Paleontology (72), 202-220 (journal article, English)
J. K. Rigby, 1995 - Lower Cambrian demosponges and hexactinellid sponges from Yunnan, China - Journal of Paleontology (69), 1009-1019 (journal article, English)
J. Y. Chen, 1989 - Lower Cambrian leptomitids (Demospongea), Chengjiang, Yunnan - Acta Palaeontologica Sinica (28), 17-30 (journal article, Chinese)
J. K. Rigby, 1987 - Early Cambrian sponges from Vermont and Pennsylvania, the only ones described from North America - Journal of Paleontology (61), 451-461 (journal article, English)
J. K. Rigby, 1986 - Cambrian and Silurian sponges from North Greenland - Rapport Groenlands Geologiske Undersoegelse (132), 51-63 (journal article, English)
J. K. Rigby, 1979 - A new Silurian sponge fauna from northern British Columbia, Canada - Journal of Paleontology (53), 968-980 (journal article, English)
J. K. Rigby, 1978 - Porifera of the Middle Cambrian Wheeler Shale, from the Wheeler Amphitheater, House Range, in western Utah - Journal of Paleontology (52), 1325-1345 (journal article, English)
V. Y. Goryanskiy, 1977 - Pervaya nakhodka ostatkov gubki v nizhnem kembrii vostochnoy Sibiri [First discovery of sponge remains from the Lower Cambrian of eastern Siberia] - Ezhegodnik Vsesoyuzhnogo Paleontologicheskogo Obshchestva (20), 274-276 (journal article, Russian)
J. K. Rigby, 1971 - Sponges of the Ordovician Cat Head Member, Lake Winnipeg, Manitoba - Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin (202), 35-79 (journal article, English)
F.J.E. Wagner, 1970 - Faunas of the Pleistocene Champlain Sea - Bulletin of the Geological Survey of Canada (181), - (serial monograph, English)
P. A. Gerasimov, 1960 - Gubki podmoskovskoy yury u nizhnego mela [Jurassic and Lower Cretaceous sponges of the Moscow region] - Materialy po Geologii i Poleznym Ickopayemym Tsentral'nykh Rayonov Evropeyskoy Chasti SSSR (3), 5-63 (serial monograph, Russian)
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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