†family Tryplasmatidae Etheridge 1907 (horn coral)

Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Tryplasmatidae

Parent taxon: Cystiphyllida according to D. Hill 1981

See also Hill 1956 and Merriam 1972

Sister taxa: Cystiphyllidae, Digonophyllidae, Fletcheriidae, Goniophyllidae, Holmophyllidae, Palaeocyclidae

Subtaxa: Loboplasma Porpites Storthygophyllum Thecaspinellum Tryplasmatinae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of the Russian Federation (4 collections)

• Devonian of Australia (17), Austria (1), Canada (2: Nunavut), China (5), Italy (3), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (18), Spain (2), Tajikistan (19), United States (23: Alaska, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania), Vietnam (6)

• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1), Pakistan (1), Tajikistan (2)

• Silurian of Australia (17), Belarus (1), Canada (24: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (24), the Czech Republic (2), Greenland (1), India (2), Japan (2), Mongolia (5), the Russian Federation (11), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Sweden (7), Tajikistan (4), Ukraine (11), the United Kingdom (2), United States (36: Alaska, California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (1)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (2: Northwest Territories), United States (1: Alaska)

• Ordovician of Australia (18), Canada (4: Manitoba), China (9), Estonia (9), Norway (3), Sweden (2), United States (5: Alaska, Nevada, Utah, Texas)

Total: 310 collections including 376 occurrences

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