Anthozoa - Favositida - Alveolitidae
Parent taxon: Alveolitinae according to D. Hill 1981
See also Kiessling 2003, Murray 1985 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Alveolitella, Crassialveolites, Grandalveolites, Kitakamiia, Planalveolites, Scharkovaelites, Spongioalveolites, Subalveolitella, Subalveolites
Subtaxa: Alveolites bergeri Alveolites bilsteinensis Alveolites buchiana Alveolites fornicatus Alveolites gruenewaldti Alveolites lindensis Alveolites multilamella Alveolites producti Alveolites pseudorbicularis Alveolites rockfordensis Alveolites saleei Alveolites suborbicularis Alveolites tenuissimus
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Permian of Germany (3 collections), Italy (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2)
• Givetian of China (1), Morocco (4)
• Couvinien of Australia (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (26), Australia (40), Austria (4), Belgium (7), Canada (29: Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (12), the Czech Republic (5), France (6), Germany (69), Italy (1), Mongolia (7), Morocco (9), Poland (25), the Russian Federation (17), Spain (37), Tajikistan (4), Thailand (5), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (14), United States (49: Alaska, California, Indiana, Kentucky, Nevada, New York), Vietnam (13), Western Sahara (2)
• Silurian to Devonian of Pakistan (1)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (20: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (2), the Russian Federation (2), Sweden (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (21: Alaska, California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Wisconsin)
Total: 448 collections including 575 occurrences
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