Anthozoa - Auloporida - Pyrgiidae
Full reference: F. M'Coy. 1847. XXI. On the fossil botany and zoology of the rocks associated with the coal of Australia. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 20(133):226-236
Parent taxon: Pyrgiidae according to S. Niko and M. Badpa 2021
See also Hill 1981, Murray 1985 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Amniopora, Bainbridgia, Bibucia, Salpingium
Subtaxa: Cladochonus beecheri Cladochonus carrascoi Cladochonus crassus Cladochonus magnus Cladochonus nicholsoni Cladochonus shawi Cladochonus striatus Cladochonus tenuicollis Cladochonus verrucatus
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (10 collections), Bolivia (4), Cambodia (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Japan (2), New Zealand (1), United States (6: Alaska, Nevada)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Carboniferous of Argentina (1), Australia (9), Egypt (1), Germany (2), Ireland (2), Japan (4), Spain (1), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (89: California, Indiana, Kentucky, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah)
• Devonian of Algeria (1), Australia (1), China (1), Germany (13), Morocco (3), Spain (2), United States (24: New York)
• Silurian of United States (5: Kentucky, Ohio)
Total: 193 collections including 209 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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