Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Micrabaciidae
Parent taxon: Micrabaciidae according to J. W. Wells 1956
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Letepsammia, Micrabacia
Subtaxa: Stephanophyllia californica Stephanophyllia cribraria Stephanophyllia elegans Stephanophyllia fungulus Stephanophyllia hexaflora Stephanophyllia imperialis Stephanophyllia implexa Stephanophyllia indica Stephanophyllia lanquinei Stephanophyllia michelini Stephanophyllia nysti Stephanophyllia plattenwaldensis Stephanophyllia vacavillensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Japan (5 collections), Maldives (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Taiwan (1)
• Miocene of the Czech Republic (1), Germany (20), Italy (5), Morocco (1), the Netherlands (3), Poland (1)
• Oligocene of Australia (1), France (1), Hungary (7), the Netherlands (2)
• Eocene of the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: California)
• Paleocene of Austria (1), Egypt (1), Pakistan (1), Ukraine (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), the Czech Republic (11), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), United States (5: Alabama, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee)
Total: 79 collections including 87 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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