Plectostroma Nestor 1964 (stromatoporoid sponge)

Stromatoporoidea - Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae

Parent taxon: Actinostromatidae according to C. W. Stearn et al. 1999

See also Nestor 1964 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Actinostroma, Bicolumnostratum, Bifariostroma, Neoclathrodictyon

Subtaxa: Plectostroma altum Plectostroma inornata Plectostroma intertextum Plectostroma necopinatum Plectostroma salairicum

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Type: Actinostroma intertextum

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (4 collections), Austria (2), Canada (1: Nunavut), the Czech Republic (12), Spain (14), Tajikistan (2), United States (1: New York), Vietnam (1)

• Silurian of Estonia (9), Latvia (1), Mongolia (2), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (5), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1)

Total: 63 collections including 78 occurrences

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