Calapoecia Billings 1865 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Sarcinulida - Syringophyllidae

Synonym: Coxia Preobrazhenskiy 1970

Parent taxon: Syringophyllidae according to T.C. Gierlowski and R. L. Langenheim 1985

See also Hill 1981, Murray 1985 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Calapoeciinae, Syringophyllinae

Subtaxa: Calapoecia anticostiensis Calapoecia coxi Calapoecia huronensis

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Type: Calapoecia huronensis

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (3: Québec collections)

• Ordovician of Australia (2), Canada (60: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (2), the Russian Federation (8), United States (29: Alaska, Colorado, Kentucky, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Texas, Wyoming)

Total: 104 collections including 119 occurrences

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