Dibunophyllum Thomson and Nicholson 1876 (horn coral)

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Aulophyllidae

Synonym: Rodophyllum Thomson 1874

Parent taxon: Dibunophyllinae according to D. Hill 1981

See also Hill 1956 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Arachniophyllum, Arachnolasma, Biphyllum, Caninostrotion, Cystilophophyllum, Diaschophyllum, Eostrotion, Faberolasma, Haplolasma, Katranophyllum, Koninckophylloides, Lophophrentis, Nagatophyllum, Sestrophyllum, Slimoniphyllum, Spirophyllum, Turbinatocaninia, Yakovleviella, Yuanophyllum

Subtaxa: Dibunophyllum arachnoforme Dibunophyllum bipartitum Dibunophyllum moorei Dibunophyllum uddeni

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Type: Clisiophyllum bipartitum

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of China (2 collections), United States (13: Kansas, Texas)

• Atokan of United States (1: Texas)

• Carboniferous of Algeria (5), Belgium (1), Canada (2: Alberta, Nunavut), China (8), France (2), Ireland (2), Japan (3), Morocco (12), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (23), United States (27: Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas)

• Devonian of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 113 collections including 125 occurrences

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