†family Lophophyllidae Grabau 1928 (horn coral)

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lophophyllidae

Parent taxon: Plerophyllina according to D. Hill 1981

Sister taxa: Adamanophyllidae, Anisophyllidae, Endotheciidae, Plerophyllidae, Polycoeliidae, Timorphyllidae, Verbeekiellidae

Subtaxa: Lophamplexus Lophocarinophyllum Lophophyllidium Lophophyllum Sugiyamaella

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Afghanistan (3 collections), Armenia (3), Azerbaijan (1), Bolivia (24), Cambodia (9), China (72), East Timor (1), Guatemala (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (12), Italy (2), Japan (2), Mexico (7), New Zealand (1), Oman (1), the Russian Federation (14), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (4), Tunisia (2), United States (56: Arizona, California, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas), Venezuela (5)

• Carboniferous to Permian of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)

• Carboniferous of Algeria (1), China (8), Germany (1), Japan (1), Mexico (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (2), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (212: Alaska, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah)

Total: 457 collections including 566 occurrences

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