Anthozoa - Stauriida - Petalaxidae

Full reference: C. H. Stevens and B. Rycerski. 1989. Early Permian colonial rugose corals from the Stikine River area, British Columbia, Canada. Journal of Paleontology 63(2):158-181

Belongs to Lytvophyllum according to J. Fedorowski et al. 2007

See also Stevens and Rycerski 1989

Sister taxa: Lytvophyllum flexuosum, Lytvophyllum hongi, Lytvophyllum sustutense, Lytvophyllum tschernowi, Lytvophyllum wersonae

Type specimen: GSC 85274. Its type locality is GSC 28942 (SE-19c-56), Mess Lake, Stikine, which is in an Asselian shallow subtidal limestone in Canada.

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at GSC 28942 (SE-19c-56), Mess Lake, Stikine

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