Stephenicyathus Voronova et al. 1987 (archaeocyath sponge)

Archaeocyatha - Ajacicyathida - Ethmophyllidae

Full reference: L. G. Voronova, N. A. Drozdova, B. A. Zhegallo, A. Yu Zhuravlev, A. Yu Rozanov, T. A. Sayutina, and G. T. Ushatinskaya. 1987. Fossils from the Lower Cambrian of the MacKenzie Mountains (Canada). Trudy Paleontologicheskogo Instituta 224:1-88

Parent taxon: Ethmophyllidae according to F. Debrenne et al. 2015

See also Sepkoski 2002 and Voronova et al. 1987

Sister taxa: Angaricyathus, Aulocricus, Cordilleracyathus, Dupliporocyathus, Ethmophyllum, Kolbicyathus, Parethmophyllum, Squamosocyathus

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Mackenzie Mountains, section 24b, bioherm 1 (Cambrian of Northwest Territories)

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