Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cunnolitidae
Synonyms: Cyclolites Lamarck 1801, Paracunnolites Beauvais 1964, Plesiocunnolites, Plesiocunnolitopsis Alloiteau 1957, Zittelofungia Duncan 1884
Parent taxon: Cunnolitidae according to R. C. Baron-Szabo 2002
See also Kiessling 2008, Kiessling 2014, López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Cunnolites (Paracunnolites) Cunnolites angiostoma Cunnolites cancellata Cunnolites cereviciana Cunnolites giganteus Cunnolites gosavicus Cunnolites heberti Cunnolites humilis Cunnolites jamaicaensis Cunnolites japonica Cunnolites nummulus Cunnolites orbignyi Cunnolites phillipsiae Cunnolites polymorphus Cunnolites profundus Cunnolites rhomboideus Cunnolites scutellum Cunnolites tenuiradiata
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Germany (1 collection), Hungary (4), India (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Pakistan (1), United States (1: California)
• Paleocene of the Netherlands (1), Pakistan (2), Somalia (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (4), Azerbaijan (1), Bulgaria (4), China (5), Croatia (3), France (2), Germany (1), Greece (1), India (1), Iran (3), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), Libya (1), the Netherlands (5), Oman (11), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (8), Serbia and Montenegro (10), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (7), Somalia (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (2), Turkey (2), Ukraine (1), the United Arab Emirates (4)
Total: 101 collections including 219 occurrences
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