Stylophora - Cornuta - Cothurnocystidae
Parent taxon: Cothurnocystida according to C. D. Sumrall et al. 2009
See also Beaver et al. 1967, Lee et al. 2005, Lefebvre and Vizcaino 1999, Sumrall and Sprinkle 1999 and Ubaghs 1994
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Acuticarpus Archaeocothurnus Cardiocystella Chauvelicystinae Cothurnocystinae Nevadaecystis Phyllocystinae Ponticulocarpus Scotiaecystinae Trigonocarpus
Ecology: facultatively mobile epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2 collections)
• Arenig of Morocco (1), the United Kingdom (2)
• Ordovician of Czechia (1), France (1), Morocco (3), Spain (1), the United Kingdom (3)
• Cambrian of South Korea (1), Spain (1), United States (10: Nevada, Utah, Wyoming)
• Amgan of the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 27 collections including 31 occurrences