Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Alternative spelling: Caryophillia
Synonym: Cylindrocyathus Alloiteau 1952
Parent taxon: Caryophylliinae according to R. C. Baron-Szabo 2002
See also Alloiteau 1952, Howse 1848, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Dendrocyathus, Leptocyathus, Lophosmilia, Stephanocyathus, Stephanosmilia, Stylocyathus
Subtaxa: Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus) Caryophyllia (Ceratocyathus) Caryophyllia (Premocyathus) Caryophyllia aequalis Caryophyllia alaskensis Caryophyllia arnoldi Caryophyllia blakeleyensis Caryophyllia calcitrapa Caryophyllia californica Caryophyllia calveri Caryophyllia capayensis Caryophyllia charrieri Caryophyllia cladaxis Caryophyllia clavus Caryophyllia comanchei Caryophyllia constricta Caryophyllia crassicosta Caryophyllia dalli Caryophyllia degenerans Caryophyllia denaria Caryophyllia dentonensis Caryophyllia gracilis Caryophyllia granulosa Caryophyllia inops Caryophyllia japonica Caryophyllia konincki Caryophyllia lamellifera Caryophyllia leptaxis Caryophyllia mcglameryae Caryophyllia mediavia Caryophyllia neglecta Caryophyllia oregonensis Caryophyllia paucipaliata Caryophyllia pedroensis Caryophyllia pentaradiata Caryophyllia quadragintaseptae Caryophyllia salinaria Caryophyllia sarsiae Caryophyllia sciolzensis Caryophyllia scobinosa Caryophyllia simplex Caryophyllia sismondai Caryophyllia smithii Caryophyllia suevica Caryophyllia texana Caryophyllia truncata Caryophyllia vermicularis Caryophyllia woodmanensis Caryophyllia wynoocheensis
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Argentina (7 collections), Greece (9), Indonesia (2), Italy (3), Japan (6), New Zealand (1), Taiwan (1), United States (6: Alaska, California), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Philippines (1), Taiwan (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (5), Italy (4), Japan (1), New Zealand (1), United States (1: California)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (1)
• Miocene of Belgium (1), Brazil (4), Czechia (1), France (4), Germany (8), Grenada (3), Indonesia (9), Iran (1), Italy (5), Moldova (1), Morocco (2), the Netherlands (4), New Zealand (5), Pakistan (1), Poland (6), Portugal (2), Romania (2), Slovakia (2), Spain (2)
• Oligocene of France (2), Germany (3), Hungary (7), the Netherlands (4), United States (8: Oregon, Washington), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Antarctica (1), France (1), Tonga (1), United States (7: Alabama, California, Louisiana, Oregon, Texas, Washington)
• Paleocene of Azerbaijan (1), Denmark (2), Egypt (2), Greenland (7), the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1), United States (30: Texas)
• Cretaceous of Australia (2), China (1), Denmark (1), Greenland (3), India (2), Libya (1), Madagascar (1), the Netherlands (3), Senegal (1), Slovakia (1), South Africa (1), Switzerland (1), United States (12: Arkansas, Mississippi, New Mexico, Texas)
• Jurassic of Germany (4), Hungary (1), Poland (1)
Total: 233 collections including 325 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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