Anthozoa - Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Synonyms: Ptenophyllum Wedekind 1922, Stenophyllum Wedekind 1925
Parent taxon: Ptenophyllidae according to M. Coen-Aubert 2017
See also Hill 1956, Hill 1981 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Actinocystinae, Eddastraea, Gaynaphyllum, Grypophyllum, Laroonaphyllum, Ptenophyllinae
Subtaxa: Acanthophyllum (Grypophyllum) Acanthophyllum clermontense Acanthophyllum confusum Acanthophyllum filiforme Acanthophyllum heterophyllum Acanthophyllum sougyi Acanthophyllum trompetti
Type: Cyathophyllum heterophyllum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (1 collection), the Russian Federation (4)
• Givetian of Morocco (2)
• Devonian of Australia (25), Austria (1), Belgium (8), Canada (1: Yukon), China (3), Czechia (3), France (1), Germany (23), Kazakhstan (1), Mauritania (6), Mongolia (1), Morocco (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (20), Spain (12), Tajikistan (5), the United Kingdom (7), United States (12: Alaska), Western Sahara (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Tajikistan (1)
Total: 141 collections including 165 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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