Pterobranchia - Graptoloidea - Anisograptidae
Alternative combinations: Dictyograptus flabelliforme, Dictyograptus flabelliformis, Dictyonema flabelliforme, Dictyonema flabelliformis, Gorgonia flabelliformis, Rhabdinopora flabelliforme
Belongs to Rhabdinopora according to R. A. Cooper et al. 1998
See also Wang and Muir 2015
Sister taxa: Rhabdinopora enigma, Rhabdinopora umbellata
Subtaxa: Dictyonema flabelliforme intermedium Rhabdinopora flabelliformis anglica Rhabdinopora flabelliformis flabelliformis Rhabdinopora flabelliformis multithecata Rhabdinopora flabelliformis norvegica Rhabdinopora flabelliformis parabola Rhabdinopora flabelliformis socialis
Ecology: passively mobile planktonic suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Ordovician of Australia (2 collections), Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), Estonia (5), Norway (5), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (6), United States (1: Utah)
• Canadian of United States (2: Utah)
• Cressagian of the United Kingdom (1)
• Tremadoc of Argentina (2), Bolivia (3), China (4), the Czech Republic (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Cambrian to Ordovician of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 38 collections including 48 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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