†family Micheliniidae Waagen and Wentzel 1886 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Favositida - Micheliniidae

Parent taxon: Favositoidea according to Plusquellec 2012

See also Hill 1981, Niko 2005 and Webb 1990

Sister taxa: Agetolitidae, Cleistoporidae, Favositidae, Multisoleniidae, Palaeacidae, Pseudofavositidae, Syringolitidae, Vaughaniidae

Subtaxa: Granulidictyinae Micheliniinae Michelinopora Praemichelinia Protomichelinia Turnacipora

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Type: Michelinia

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Permian of Afghanistan (2 collections), Armenia (6), Azerbaijan (13), Bolivia (3), Cambodia (1), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (71), Indonesia (1), Iran (28), Iraq (2), Japan (2), Malaysia (2), Pakistan (7), Slovenia (1), Tajikistan (1), United States (1: California)

• Desmoinesian of United States (1: Kansas)

• Chesterian of United States (6: Arkansas, Montana)

• Osagean of United States (6: California, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, Utah)

• Carboniferous of Algeria (2), Australia (7), Canada (1: Yukon), China (1), the Czech Republic (2), Egypt (1), Ireland (4), Mexico (2), Morocco (6), Poland (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (53), United States (17: Arizona, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah)

• Mississippian of United States (1: Alaska)

• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)

• Devonian of Algeria (1), Australia (19), Bolivia (4), Brazil (1), Canada (3: Ontario), China (1), Colombia (3), the Czech Republic (2), France (5), Germany (20), Luxembourg (2), Morocco (5), New Zealand (4), the Russian Federation (1), South Africa (5), Spain (4), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (62: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee), Venezuela (4)

• Silurian to Devonian of Argentina (1)

• Silurian of Argentina (4), Australia (5), Bolivia (1), Tajikistan (1), United States (7: California, Kentucky, Wisconsin)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)

Total: 427 collections including 504 occurrences

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