Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Coccoserididae
Synonym: Stylaraea Von Seebach 1866 [replaced name]
Parent taxon: Coccoserididae according to D. Hill 1981
See also Bayer et al. 1956, Sepkoski 2002 and Twenhofel 1938
Sister taxa: Acidolites, Coccoseris
Subtaxa: Protaraea diffluens Protaraea procella Protaraea richmondensis Stylaraea parva
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (1: Ontario collection), Estonia (1), India (2)
• Chazyan of United States (6: New York)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), Canada (5: Nunavut, Ontario), China (2), Estonia (7), the Russian Federation (1), United States (50: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio)
Total: 76 collections each including a single occurrence
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