Anthozoa - Favositida - Micheliniidae
Alternative spelling: Michelina
Parent taxon: Micheliniinae according to S. Niko et al. 2018
See also Murray 1985, Sepkoski 2002, Wang and Sugiyama 2000 and Webb 1990
Sister taxa: Beaumontia, Conopoterium, Cystodendropora, Cystomichelinia, Dendrozoum, Holacanthopora, Julfamichelinia, Kerforneidictyum, Petridictyum, Pleurodictyum, Tabellaephyllum, Tectamichelinia
Subtaxa: Michelinia abichi Michelinia escobari Michelinia indica Michelinia macerimuris Michelinia medifixa Michelinia meekana Michelinia miranda Michelinia nana Michelinia nelsoni Michelinia parva Michelinia pecteniformis Michelinia placenta Michelinia stylopora Michelinia vaga Michelinia vermispinosa Michelinia vesiculosa
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Permian of Armenia (5 collections), Azerbaijan (13), Bolivia (3), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (5), Indonesia (1), Iran (10), Malaysia (2), Pakistan (7), Slovenia (1), United States (1: California)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (2), Australia (5), Canada (1: Yukon), China (1), Egypt (1), Ireland (4), Mexico (1), Morocco (6), Poland (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (53), United States (25: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Utah)
• Devonian of Morocco (1), Thailand (1), United States (1: New York)
• Silurian of United States (1: California)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)
Total: 156 collections including 169 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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