†Foerstephyllum Bassler 1950 (tabulate coral)
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Anthozoa - Sarcinulida - Billingsariidae
Parent taxon: Foerstephyllinae according to D. Hill 1981
See also Murray 1985 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxon: Qianbeilites
Subtaxa: Foerstephyllum wissleri
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Chazyan of United States (3: Vermont collections)
• Ordovician of Australia (4), Canada (8: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (2), the Russian Federation (1), United States (14: Alabama, Kentucky, New York, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Wyoming)
Total: 32 collections each including a single occurrence
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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