CHENENDOPORIDAE Schrammen, 1924

Pisera, Andrzej, 2000, New species of lithistid sponges from the Paleogene of the Ukraine, Zoosystema 22 (2), pp. 285-298 : 292

Family CHENENDOPORIDAE Schrammen, 1924

Genus Chenendopora Lamouroux, 1821 REMARKS

So far no dermalia have been reported in the genus Chenendopora Lamouroux. My own, unpublished studies of the Upper Cretaceous Chenendopora from Schrammen’s (1910) collection, revealed that small phyllotriaene dermalia occur in this genus; very similar dermalia are present in the described new species. Because of their small size, dermalia were earlier most probably overlooked. Relationship between the families Chenendoporidae Schrammen and Theonellidae Lendenfeld must be clarified, as so far the main difference between those two families was the absence of dermalia in Chenendopora , which is now known not to be the case. This needs, however, more detailed studies of the Mesozoic Chenendopora species.