Cystostroma Galloway and St Jean 1957 (stromatoporoid sponge)

Stromatoporoidea - Labechiida - Rosenellidae

Parent taxon: Rosenellidae according to C. W. Stearn et al. 1999

See also Bolton 1988, Nestor 1964 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Forolinia, Pachystylostroma, Pseudostylodictyon, Rosenella

Subtaxa: Cystostroma estoniense Cystostroma primordia Cystostroma prodigiosum Cystostroma vermontense

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Type: Cystostroma vermontense

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Devonian of China (1 collection)

• Ordovician of Australia (7), Canada (9: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Québec), China (2), Estonia (2), Malaysia (1), Mongolia (4), the Russian Federation (3), South Korea (2), United States (1: Alaska)

• Tremadoc of China (1)

Total: 33 collections including 34 occurrences

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