Anthozoa - Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Parent taxon: Aulophyllidae according to D. Hill 1981
Sister taxa: Amygdalophyllinae, Aulophyllinae, Clisiophyllinae, Corwenia, Delepinella, Espielia, Fedorowskiphyllum, Heritschioidinae, Heterocaniniinae
Subtaxa: Arachniophyllum Arachnolasma Biphyllum Caninostrotion Cystilophophyllum Diaschophyllum Dibunophyllum Eostrotion Faberolasma Haplolasma Katranophyllum Koninckophylloides Lophophrentis Nagatophyllum Sestrophyllum Slimoniphyllum Spirophyllum Turbinatocaninia Yakovleviella Yuanophyllum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (4 collections), Laos (1), United States (13: Kansas, Texas), Vietnam (1)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (9), Belgium (1), Canada (2: Alberta, Nunavut), China (24), France (2), Ireland (4), Japan (4), Morocco (22), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (29), United States (35: Arkansas, Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1)
Total: 166 collections including 222 occurrences