Anthozoa - Favositida - Pachyporidae
Parent taxon: Pachyporinae according to A. May 1993
See also Murray 1985 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acaciapora, Celechopora, Cladopora, Daljanolites, Dualipora, Egosiella, Gertholites, Gracilopora, Guanziyaopora, Guizhoustriatopora, Heterocoenites, Hillaepora, Isurugiopora, Pachypora, Pachystriatopora, Parastriatoporella, Protrachypora, Rhachopora, Rotundites, Sinkiangopora, Striatopora, Thamnoporella, Thamnoptychia, Yakunopora, Zemmourella, Taouzia
Subtaxa: Thamnopora compacta Thamnopora densa Thamnopora germanica Thamnopora immensa Thamnopora insculpta Thamnopora magniventra Thamnopora marmionensis Thamnopora reticulata Thamnopora yavorskyi
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (9 collections), China (1), Germany (1), New Zealand (1)
• Givetian of China (1), Morocco (5)
• Couvinien of Australia (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (33), Australia (38), Austria (4), Belgium (5), Canada (34: Alberta, British columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Yukon), China (19), the Czech Republic (3), France (9), Germany (59), Iran (1), Italy (4), Japan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Laos (1), Mongolia (12), Morocco (15), New Zealand (3), Poland (15), the Russian Federation (25), Spain (54), Tajikistan (5), Thailand (10), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (18), United States (102: Alaska, Arizona, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Montana, Nevada, New York, North Dakota), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (19), Western Sahara (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Pakistan (1)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (8: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Quebec), China (2), the Czech Republic (2), India (1), Japan (2), Sweden (5), the United Kingdom (3), United States (2: California)
• Ordovician of Turkey (1)
Total: 540 collections including 664 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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