Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Septoporidae
Full reference: W. King. 1849. On some families and genera of corals. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History, Second Series 3:388-390
Parent taxon: Septoporidae according to D.V. Lisitsyn and A. Ernst 2004
See also Bassler 1953 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Septopora, Shulgapora, Synocladiella
Subtaxa: Thamniscus digitatus Thamniscus erraticus Thamniscus indubius Thamniscus orientalis Thamniscus perplexus Thamniscus ramulosus Thamniscus serialis Thamniscus sevillensis Thamniscus siccus Thamniscus unilateralis
Type: Thamniscus perplexus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Canada (1: British Columbia collection), China (1), Germany (4), Iran (1), Japan (1), Pakistan (3), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (4), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (4: Alaska, Nevada, Texas)
• Desmoinesian of United States (1: Pennsylvania)
• Pennsylvanian of China (1)
• Chesterian of United States (1: Utah)
• Osagean of United States (3: Indiana, Kentucky)
• Mississippian of Afghanistan (1), United States (3: California, Indiana)
• Carboniferous of France (1), India (1), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (4), United States (41: Alabama, Arizona, California, Indiana, Kentucky, Oklahoma, Tennessee)
• Silurian of Sweden (1)
Total: 84 collections including 85 occurrences
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