Parent taxon: Edrioasteroidea according to A. Kouchinsky et al. 2011
See also Jell et al. 1985, Parsley and Prokop 2004, Regnéll 1945, Regnéll 1966, Sepkoski 2002, Ubaghs 1999 and Zhao et al. 2010
Sister taxa: Aragocystites, Camptostroma, Cyathocystida, Cyathothecidae, Edrioasterida, Edrioblastoida, Hemicystitidae, Isorophida, Isorophina, Isorophinidae, Kailidiscus, Pyrgocystidae, Stromatocystitida, Stromatocystitidae, Thecocystis, Yorkicystitidae
Subtaxa: Stromatocystites pentangularis Stromatocystites reduncus Stromatocystites walcotti
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Australia (2 collections), Canada (1: Newfoundland), Czechia (8)
• Solvan of the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (1)
• Amgan of Czechia (2), Poland (1)
Total: 17 collections including 19 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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