| Ethmophyllidae Temporal range: | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Porifera |
| Order: | † Ajacicyathida |
| Superfamily: | † Ethmophylloidea |
| Family: | † Ethmophyllidae Okulitch 1937 |
| Type genus | |
| Ethmophyllum Meek 1868 | |
| Genera [1] | |
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Ethmophyllidae is a prehistoric family of sponges in the superfamily Ethmophylloidea. It was described in 1937 with type genus Ethmophyllum . Ethmophyllidae is known from Cambrian Series 2, and has been found across North America and Russia. [1]