Entelophyllum Wedekind 1927 (horn coral)

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Entelophyllidae

Synonyms: Stereoxylodes Wang 1947, Xylodes Lang et al. 1927

Parent taxon: Entelophyllidae according to D. Hill 1981

See also Hill 1956, Merriam 1973 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Altaja, Evenkiella, Kysylagathophyllum, Medinophyllum, Migmatophyllum, Nanshanophyllum, Ornatophyllum, Petrozium, Prohexagonaria, Ramulophyllum, Scyphophyllum, Shensiphyllum, Tenuiphyllum, Trachyphyllum

Subtaxa: Entelophyllum devonicum Entelophyllum engelmanni Entelophyllum eurekaensls

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Devonian of the Russian Federation (2 collections), Tajikistan (1), Vietnam (1)

• Silurian of Australia (5), Belarus (1), Canada (9: British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (6), the Czech Republic (4), Estonia (2), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (27), Sweden (4), Tajikistan (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (6: Alaska, Iowa, Kentucky, Oklahoma)

• Ordovician of the Russian Federation (1)

Total: 73 collections including 84 occurrences

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