Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Synonym: Pinnatopora Vine 1883
Parent taxon: Diploporariinae according to A. Ernst 2000
See also Bassler 1953 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Penniretepora afghanica Penniretepora auernigiana Penniretepora curvula Penniretepora disposita Penniretepora ernos Penniretepora flexistriata Penniretepora fossata Penniretepora granulata Penniretepora invisa Penniretepora microtropica Penniretepora nodocarinata Penniretepora nodolineata Penniretepora oppositus Penniretepora peculiaris Penniretepora pustulosa Penniretepora scalaris Penniretepora siamensis Penniretepora subtila Penniretepora triporosa Penniretepora tropica Penniretepora waltheri Penniretepora xiangtanensis Pinnatopora grandis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (7 collections), Austria (2), Canada (2: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (7), East Timor (1), Germany (3), Indonesia (1), Iran (3), Japan (2), Mongolia (1), Oman (5), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (4), Thailand (4), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (57: Alaska, Kansas, Nevada, Texas)
• Virgilian of United States (5: Kansas, Texas)
• Desmoinesian of United States (2: Kansas, Oklahoma)
• Pennsylvanian of United States (2: New Mexico)
• Chesterian of United States (2: Idaho)
• Osagean of United States (2: Indiana)
• Carboniferous of France (1), Ireland (2), Japan (4), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), the United Kingdom (9), United States (23: Idaho, Idaho-Utah, Indiana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Utah)
• Mississippian of United States (3: Alaska, Indiana)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
• Devonian of Germany (10), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (3: Michigan, Ohio), Western Sahara (1)
• Ordovician of the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 191 collections including 243 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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