Graphularia (sea pen)

Anthozoa - Pennatulacea

Parent taxon: Pennatulacea according to W. Kiessling 2009

See also Goedert et al. 2022, Sepkoski 2002 and Wienrich 1997

Sister taxa: Glyptosceptron, Pachysceptron, Palaeosceptron, Pavonaria, Prographularia, Pteroeides, Virgularia

Subtaxa: Graphularia longissima Graphularia quadrata Graphularia robinae Graphularia salisburgensis Graphularia sasai Graphularia wetherelli

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore

Distribution:

• Miocene of Germany (2 collections), New Zealand (1)

• Waitakian of New Zealand (1)

• Oligocene of Australia (2), New Zealand (3)

• Eocene of New Zealand (1), the United Kingdom (9)

• Paleocene of Austria (2), Denmark (1), Egypt (1), the Netherlands (2), Ukraine (1), United States (4: Alabama, New Jersey)

• Cretaceous of the Netherlands (7), Ukraine (1)

Total: 38 collections each including a single occurrence

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