Anthozoa - Stauriida - Waagenophyllidae
Parent taxon: Waagenophyllidae according to X. J. Wang et al. 2019
See also Hill 1956, Minato and Kato 1965 and Wang and Sugiyama 2001
Sister taxa: Carinowaagenophyllum, Chombungia, Chusenophyllum, Maoriphyllum, Miyagiella, Monothecalis, Monsteraphyllum, Peiraphyllum, Symmetrites, Vesotabularia, Wentzellophyllinae, Wentzelophyllum, Xainzaphyllum
Subtaxa: Akagophyllum Chielasma Chihsiaphyllum Gyanyimaphyllum Heritschiella Huangia Huayunophyllum Ipciphyllum Paraipciphyllum Parawentzelella Pavastehphyllum Pseudocarniaphyllum Pseudohuangia Thomasiphyllum Waagenophyllum Yokoyamaella
Type: Waagenophyllum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Afghanistan (2 collections), Armenia (13), Azerbaijan (15), Cambodia (17), China (141), Croatia (1), Indonesia (3), Iran (44), Iraq (6), Japan (37), Laos (3), Malaysia (4), Myanmar (1), New Zealand (1), Oman (5), Pakistan (19), the Philippines (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (4), Tajikistan (11), Thailand (14), Tunisia (3), Turkey (1), United States (11: California, Nevada, Oregon), Vietnam (5)
• Carboniferous of China (3)
Total: 366 collections including 512 occurrences