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Actinostroma
Actinostroma is an extinct Devonian stromatoporoid sponge genus (Nicholson, 1886; type species A. clathratum), a massive reef-builder living from Lochkovian to Frasnian in back-reef and reef settings worldwide.
Amphipora
Amphipora (type species A. ramosa) is an extinct Devonian genus of dendroid stromatoporoid sponges with slender, spaghetti-like branching skeletons, typical of restricted inner-platform lagoonal carbonates across Europe, North America, Asia, and Australia.
Clathrodictyon
Clathrodictyon is an extinct stromatoporoid sponge known only from fossils, living from the Late Ordovician to the Devonian and giving its name to the family Clathrodictyidae.
Labechiida
Labechiida is an extinct order of calcareous, sponge-like stromatoporoid fossils whose skeletons of cyst plates crossed by pillars appeared in the Middle Ordovician and built reefs.
Stromatopora
Stromatopora is an extinct genus of hypercalcified stromatoporoid sponge that built laminated calcareous skeletons on shallow Palaeozoic sea floors from the Silurian to the Late Devonian.
Stromatoporella
Stromatoporella is an extinct Devonian stromatoporoid sponge genus (order Stromatoporellida), type species Stromatopora granulata Nicholson, 1873, defined by ring pillars and ordinocellular laminae, widespread in Siluro-Devonian reefs and taxonomically contested.