Anthozoa - Stauriida - Phillipsastreidae
Alternative spelling: Frechastrea
Synonym: Scruttonia Cherepnina 1974
Parent taxon: Phillipsastreidae according to R. L. S. Brownlaw and J. S. Jell 2008
See also Hill 1981, Kiessling 2008, McLean 1994 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Bensonastraea, Chuanbeiphyllum, Farabophyllum, Keriophylloides, Kuangxiastraea, Macgeea, Pachyphyllum, Peneckiella, Phillipsastrea, Protomacgeea, Pterorrhiza, Smithicyathus, Stellatophyllum, Sulcorphyllum, Thamnophyllum, Trapezophyllum, Vestigiphyllum, Phillipsastraeinae, Phacellophyllinae
Subtaxa: Frechastraea borealis Frechastraea coeni Frechastraea delicatula Frechastraea glabra Frechastraea pentagona Frechastraea phillipsastraeiformis Frechastraea pollicaris Frechastraea schafferi Frechastraea scruttoni Scruttonia fedorowskii Scruttonia kunthi Scruttonia sotoi Scruttonia sudetica
Type: Cyathophyllum pentagonum
Distribution:
• Devonian of Afghanistan (3 collections), Australia (4), Belgium (5), Canada (13: Alberta, British Colombia-Alberta, British Columbia, British Columbia-Alberta, Northwest Territories), China (1), France (1), Germany (3), Iran (1), Morocco (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (4), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 42 collections including 52 occurrences
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