Anthozoa - Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Parent taxon: Ptenophyllina according to D. Hill 1981
See also Brownlaw and Jell 2008 and Hill 1956
Sister taxa: Fasciphyllidae, Spongophyllidae, Stringophyllidae
Subtaxa: Acanthophyllum Actinocystinae Eddastraea Gaynaphyllum Grypophyllum Laroonaphyllum Ptenophyllinae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (1 collection), the Russian Federation (4)
• Givetian of Morocco (2)
• Couvinien of Australia (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (1), Australia (39), Austria (3), Belgium (10), Canada (33: Alberta, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Mackenzie, British Colombia-Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (9), Czechia (5), France (1), Germany (32), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (4), Laos (1), Mauritania (6), Mongolia (4), Morocco (1), Myanmar (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (50), Spain (26), Tajikistan (17), Thailand (5), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (8), United States (50: Alaska, California, Nevada, Pennsylvania), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (8), Western Sahara (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Tajikistan (2)
• Silurian of Australia (3), Belarus (1), Czechia (1), Mongolia (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (5), Sweden (1), Ukraine (9), the United Kingdom (1), United States (17: Alaska, California, Indiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
Total: 373 collections including 655 occurrences