Anthozoa - Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae
Synonym: Wentzelellinae Hudson 1958
Parent taxon: Waagenophyllidae according to X.-D. Wang et al. 2006
See also Hill 1981, Minato and Kato 1965 and Wang et al. 2018
Sister taxa: Carinowaagenophyllum, Chombungia, Chusenophyllum, Maoriphyllum, Miyagiella, Monothecalis, Monsteraphyllum, Peiraphyllum, Symmetrites, Vesotabularia, Waagenophyllinae, Wentzelophyllum, Xainzaphyllum
Subtaxa: Houchangophyllum Iranophyllum Lonsdaleiastraea Maoyingophyllum Multimurinus Parairanophylloides Polythecalis Praewentzelella Pseudopolythecalis Wentzelella Wentzelellites Wentzelloides Wentzellophyllum Xizangophyllum Zhurihephyllum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Armenia (9 collections), Azerbaijan (7), Cambodia (8), China (108), Indonesia (4), Iran (18), Iraq (1), Italy (1), Japan (7), Laos (4), Malaysia (6), Myanmar (1), Oman (7), Pakistan (9), the Russian Federation (7), Slovenia (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (6), Vietnam (3)
• Carboniferous of the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 211 collections including 309 occurrences