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Ancestral taxa
Domain: Eukaryota /displayed  [ Taxonomy; ]
Clade: Amorphea  [ Taxonomy; ]
Clade: Obazoa  [ Taxonomy; ]
(unranked): Opisthokonta  [ Taxonomy; ]
(unranked): Holozoa  [ Taxonomy; ]
(unranked): Filozoa  [ Taxonomy; ]
Clade: Choanozoa  [ Taxonomy; ]
Kingdom: Animalia  [ Taxonomy; ]
Phylum: Porifera  [ Taxonomy; ]
Clade: Archaeocyatha  [ Taxonomy; ]


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Parent: Porifera [ Taxonomy; ]
Rank: clade (displays as Clade)
Link: Archaeocyatha
Extinct: yes
Always displayed: no
Taxonomic references:
Parent's taxonomic references: Sponge Paraphyly is now "generally accepted" (according to, for example, the article at Porifera). For a recent reference summarizing this perspective, see Nielsen, Claus (2010). Animal Evolution: Interrelationships of the Living Phyla (third ed.). ISBN  9780199606023.. This should be denoted in the link by double quotation marks ("").