Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Fenestellidae
Full reference: I.P. Morozova. 1974. Revision of the bryozoan genus Fenestella. Paleontological Journal 8:167-180
Parent taxon: Fenestellidae according to I.P. Morozova 1974
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anastomopora, Archaefenestella, Archimedes, Bicorbis, Bigeyina, Cavernella, Ernstipora, Exfenestella, Fabifenestella, Fenestella, Fenestellinae, Fenestepora, Fenestralia, Fenestrapora, Fenestrellina, Filites, Flexifenestella, Helicopora, Hemitrypa, Hemitrypella, Hinganotrypa, Isotrypa, Levifenestella, Loculipora, Lyrocladia, Lyropora, Moorephylloporina, Narynella, Ogbinofenestella, Paraptylopora, Paraseptopora, Patellipora, Permofenestella, Polycladiopora, Pseudoisotrypa, Pseudounitrypa, Ptiloporella, Ptiloporina, Reteporina, Ryhopora, Seriopora, Sphragiopora, Unitrypa, Utropora
Subtaxa: Aequifenestella Rectifenestella accurata Rectifenestella araxensis Rectifenestella banksi Rectifenestella bowenensis Rectifenestella compacta Rectifenestella cordiretiformis Rectifenestella counselensis Rectifenestella crassinodata Rectifenestella donensis Rectifenestella expansa Rectifenestella gijigensis Rectifenestella gilianshanensis Rectifenestella granulifera Rectifenestella logica Rectifenestella lunaris Rectifenestella medvedkensis Rectifenestella microporata Rectifenestella microretiformis Rectifenestella nikiforovae Rectifenestella originaria Rectifenestella ornata Rectifenestella ornatiformis Rectifenestella permulta Rectifenestella praeordinata Rectifenestella pseudoretiformis Rectifenestella retiformis Rectifenestella robusta Rectifenestella smithae Rectifenestella sparsa Rectifenestella submicroporata Rectifenestella subornata Rectifenestella superretiformis Rectifenestella tamarensis Rectifenestella tenax Rectifenestella totshanensis Rectifenestella zavodovskyi
Type: Fenestella medvedkensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Afghanistan (2 collections), Armenia (2), Australia (24), Austria (1), Azerbaijan (2), Canada (3: Nunavut), China (5), Germany (9), Greenland (1), Iran (7), Japan (1), Laos (1), Lithuania (13), Mongolia (3), Norway (1), Oman (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (77), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (14), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (20), United States (53: Kansas, Nevada)
• Carboniferous of Antarctica (2), Australia (1), France (1), Mexico (1), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), United States (17: Arizona, Indiana, Kentucky, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Utah)
• Devonian of Spain (9), Western Sahara (1)
Total: 281 collections including 354 occurrences
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