Anthozoa - Cystiphyllida - Cystiphyllidae
Parent taxon: Cystiphyllida according to D. Hill 1981
See also Hill 1956 and Merriam 1972
Sister taxa: Digonophyllidae, Fletcheriidae, Goniophyllidae, Holmophyllidae, Palaeocyclidae, Tryplasmatidae
Subtaxa: Asperophyllum Atopocystis Bucanophyllum Ceriocysta Coleophyllum Cystiphyllinae Cystiphylloides Cystiphyllum Digonoclisia Diplochone Edaphophyllum Holcocystis Mackenziephyllum Microplasma Pseudodigonophyllum Pseudomicroplasma Zonophyllum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Italy (1 collection)
• Givetian of China (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (1), Australia (22), Austria (1), Belgium (7), Canada (22: British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario), China (23), the Czech Republic (4), France (1), Germany (11), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (6), Mongolia (2), Morocco (5), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (20), Spain (15), Tajikistan (9), Thailand (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (89: Alaska, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Nevada, New York, Ohio), Vietnam (5)
• Silurian to Devonian of Tajikistan (2)
• Silurian of Australia (9), Canada (16: British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (23), the Czech Republic (2), Greenland (1), Japan (2), Mongolia (4), the Russian Federation (31), Sweden (10), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (30: Alaska, California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, New York, Oklahoma, Virginia, Wisconsin)
Total: 389 collections including 555 occurrences