†family Digonophyllidae Wedekind 1923 (horn coral)

Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Digonophyllidae

Parent taxon: Cystiphyllida according to D. Hill 1981

See also Hill 1956 and Merriam 1974

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

Subtaxa: Digonophyllinae Digonophyllum Lekanophyllum Mesophyllum Paracystiphylloides Parazonophyllum Stereophyllum Zonophyllinae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of Greece (1 collection)

• Oligocene of Spain (2)

• Devonian of Australia (3), Austria (1), Canada (16: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (1), Czechia (3), France (1), Germany (12), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (8), Tajikistan (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (6: Alaska, Indiana, Ohio), Vietnam (1), Western Sahara (1)

• Silurian to Devonian of Tajikistan (1)

Total: 67 collections including 108 occurrences

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