Poriferan paraphyly and its implications for Precambrian palaeobiology

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Proterozoic photosynthesis – a critical review (2015, background): “When it comes to clearing out the Proterozoic oceans, however, the key players would have been early sponge-grade metazoans (Sperling et al. 2007; Erwin and Tweedt 2011; Lenton et al. 2014).”
Ecological drivers of the Ediacaran-Cambrian diversification of Metazoa (2012, unknown): “mats (Gehling and Droser 2009) may have been the most significant form of Ediacaran ecosystem engineering, followed by the ventilation and carbon transfer effects of sponges (Sperling et al. 2007).”
Phylogenomics revives traditional views on deep animal relationships. (2009, unknown): “The previously proposed hypothesis of sponge paraphyly had significant implications for understanding the origin of multicellular animals, because it would imply that characters shared by all sponge lineages are ancestral for the Metazoa and that eumetazoans are derived from animals with a sponge-li”