Plasmopora Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Plasmoporidae

Parent taxon: Plasmoporidae according to J. W. Murray 1985

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Eolaminoplasma, Laminoplasma, Liscombea, Squameolites, Visbylites

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (4 collections)

• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (11: New Brunswick, Quebec), China (4), India (2), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (10), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (2), United States (10: California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky)

• Ordovician of Canada (13: Manitoba, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), Sweden (1)

Total: 64 collections including 78 occurrences

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