Coeloscleritophora - Chancelloriida - Chancelloriidae
Synonyms: Actinoites Duan 1984, Fangxianites Duan 1984, Monospinites Vassiljeva and Sayutina 1988, Stellaria Vassiljeva 1985, Stellispinella Vassiljeva and Sayutina 1993
Parent taxon: Chancelloriidae according to A. Kouchinsky et al. 2017
See also Bambach et al. 2007, Brock and Cooper 1993, Duan 1984, Henningsmoen 1952, Kouchinsky et al. 2011, Landing and Bartowski 1996, Parkhaev and Demidenko 2010 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Aldania, Aldanospina, Allonia, Allonnia, Archiasterella, Chancelloriella, Diffusasterella, Eremactis
Subtaxa: Actinoites diclinatus Actinoites simplex Actinoites tetractina Actinoites universalis Chancelloria arida Chancelloria coronacea Chancelloria eros Chancelloria iranica Chancelloria obliqua Chancelloria odontodes Chancelloria pentacta Chancelloria primaria Chancelloria racemifundis Chancelloria sardinica Chancelloria simmetrica Chancelloria spinulosa Chancelloria symmetrica Fangxianites petalinus Fangxianites schizolomus
Type: Chancelloria eros
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cambrian of Antarctica (1 collection), Argentina (1), Australia (64), Canada (14: British Columbia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Quebec), China (32), France (1), Germany (1), Greenland (3), Guinea (1), Iran (1), Italy (9), Kazakhstan (12), Kyrgyzstan (2), Mexico (7), Mongolia (1), Morocco (1), the Russian Federation (30), Spain (5), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (7), United States (25: Indiana, Massachusetts, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Utah)
• Amgan of Norway (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Solvan of Argentina (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (2)
• Ordian of Australia (2)
• Delamaran of Canada (18: British Columbia), Israel (1), Jordan (1), Mexico (1), United States (1: California)
• Placentian of Canada (1: Nova Scotia), United States (3: Massachusetts)
Total: 253 collections including 296 occurrences
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