Anthozoa - Stauriida - Ptenophyllidae
Synonym: Stenophyllum Wedekind 1925
Parent taxon: Ptenophyllinae according to D. Hill 1981
See also Hill 1956 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Acmophyllum, Aphroidophyllum, Australophyllum, Dohmophyllum, Ecnomiophyllum, Embolophyllum, Gryphophyllum, Grypophyllum, Hankaxis, Hezhangophyllum, Imennovia, Lyrielasma, Neomphyma, Paleogrypophyllum, Pseudochonophyllum, Pseudogrypophyllum, Psydracophyllum, Redstonea, Salairophyllum, Shastaphyllum, Taimyrophyllum, Tonkinaria, Toquimaphyllum, Weissermelia, Windelasma, Xystriphyllum
Subtaxa: Acanthophyllum (Grypophyllum) Acanthophyllum (Neostringophyllum) Acanthophyllum clermontense Acanthophyllum confusum Acanthophyllum trompetti
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 (3: Northwest Territories, Yukon), China (3), the Czech Republic (3), France (1), Germany (21), Kazakhstan (4), Mauritania (4), Mongolia (1), Morocco (1), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (26), Spain (12), Tajikistan (5), the United Kingdom (7), United States (14: Alaska), Vietnam (2), Western Sahara (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Tajikistan (1)
Total: 152 collections including 179 occurrences
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