†family Ptenophyllidae Wedekind 1923 (horn coral)

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

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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

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