GENUS UTE SCHMIDT, 1862

Type species: Ute glabra Schmidt, 1864 .

Diagnosis: ‘ Grantiidae with syconoid organization. The cortex is supported by giant longitudinal diactines, and the choanoskeleton is articulated, composed of several rows of triactines with occasional tetractines. There are no radial fascicles of diactines’ (Borojević et al., 2002).