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
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