Kungejophyllum Sultanbekova 1971 (horn coral)

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Mucophyllidae

Full reference: Z. S. Sultanbekova. 1971. Novyy rod rugoz Kungejophyllum iz llandoveriyskikh otlozheniy khr. Chingiz (vostochnyy Kazakhstan) [A new rugose coral genus, Kungejophyllum, from Llandoverian deposits of the Chingiz range, eastern Kazakhstan]. in Rugozy i stromatoporoidei paleozoya SSSR [Paleozoic Rugosa and Stromatoporoidea of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (2)28-32

Parent taxon: Mucophyllidae according to D. Hill 1981

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Briantia, Mucophyllum, Pseudamplexophyllum, Pseudamplexus, Pseudotryplasma, Stylopleura

Subtaxa: Kungejophyllum ajagusensis

View classification

Type: Kungejophyllum ajagusensis

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution: found only at Chingiz-Tau Mountains, Ayaguz River (Silurian of Kazakhstan)

Show more details


Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.


Click image to enlarge. Click to access iDigBio record.