†family Cloudinidae Hahn and Pflug 1985

Cloudinidae - Cloudinidae

Full reference: G. Hahn and H. D. Pflug. 1985. Die Cloudinidae n. fam., Kalk-Röhren aus dem Vendium und Unter-Kambrium. Senckenbergiana lethaea 65(4-6):413-431

Parent taxon: Cnidaria according to S. A. F. Darroch et al. 2024

See also Kiessling 2003, Vinn et al. 2025, Wood 2011 and Yang et al. 2020

Sister taxa: Annulatubus, Anthozoa, Cambroctoconus, Cambrorhytium, Crassitubus, Erniettamorpha, Escumasia, Haootia, Hydroconozoa, Inaria, Liaoningia, Mackenziidae, Mawsonites, Medusae, Medusozoa, Melanofurcata, Melanosteus, Melanostylus, Myxozoa, Priscapennamarina, Pywackia, Quadratitubus, Ramellina, Ramitubus, Sekwitubulus, Sinocyclocyclicus, Spatangopsis, Syringophyllum, Thaumoptilon, Vauzutsubua, Zolotytsia

Subtaxa: Acuticloudina Cloudina Conotubus Costatubus Rajatubulus Saarina Shaanxilithes Sinotubulites Wyattia Zuunia

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Type: Cloudina

Ecology: stationary semi-infaunal

Distribution:

• Cambrian of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (1), Estonia (1), Namibia (1)

• Begadean of United States (1: Nevada)

• Poundian of China (1)

• Vendian of Brazil (1), the Russian Federation (2)

• Ediacaran of Brazil (10), Canada (1: British Columbia), China (16), Iran (3), Mexico (7), Mongolia (1), Namibia (10), Oman (2), Paraguay (4), the Russian Federation (2), South Africa (4), Spain (3), United States (14: California, Nevada)

Total: 86 collections including 103 occurrences

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