Eiffeliidae

Eiffeliidae
	Artist reconstruction of Petaloptyon danei
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Porifera
Informal group:	†"Heteractinida"
Family:	†Eiffeliidae; Rigby, 1986
Genera
	†Astraeoconus; †Chilcaia; †Eiffelia; †Eiffelospongia; †Gondekia; †Petaloptyon; †Toquimiella; †Zangerlispongia;

Eiffeliidae is an extinct family of sponges.

Genera

The following genera are placed in the family:^[1]

†Astraeoconus Rietschel, 1968
†Chilcaia Carrera, 1994
†Eiffelia Walcott, 1920 (synonyms: Lenastella Missarzhevsky in Missarzhevsky & Mambetov, 1981; Actinoites Duan, 1984; Niphadus Duan, 1984)
†Eiffelospongia Rigby & Collins, 2004^[2]
†Gondekia Rigby, 1991
†Petaloptyon Raymond, 1931 (synonyms: Canistrumella Rigby, 1986)
†Toquimiella Rigby, 1967
†Zangerlispongia Rigby & Nitecki, 1975

^ Pickett, J. (2002). "†Order Heteractinida Hinde, 1887". In Hooper, J.N.A.; Van Soest, R.W.M.; Willenz, P. (eds.). Systema Porifera: A Guide to the Classification of Sponges. Boston, MA: Springer. pp. 1121–1140. doi:10.1007/978-1-4615-0747-5_117. ISBN 978-0-306-47260-2.
^ Rigby, J. K.; Collins, D. (2004). "Sponges of the Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale and Stephen Formations, British Columbia". ROM contributions in science. 1. ISBN 0-88854-443-X. ISSN 1710-7768.

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