Anthozoa - Stauriida - Lophophyllidae
Synonyms: Malonophyllum Okulitch and Albritton 1937, Sinophyllum Grabau 1928, Stereostylus Jeffords 1947
Parent taxon: Lophophyllidae according to X. D. Wang and T. Sugiyama 2000
See also Fedorowski 1987, Fedorowski 2010, Hill 1956, Hill 1981 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Lophamplexus, Lophocarinophyllum, Lophophyllum, Sugiyamaella
Subtaxa: Lophophyllidium (Lophbillidium) Lophophyllidium (Lophophyllidium) Lophophyllidium acostatum Lophophyllidium columellum Lophophyllidium compactum Lophophyllidium crassiseptatum Lophophyllidium interseptatum Lophophyllidium jiezhangense Lophophyllidium kayseri Lophophyllidium liangshanense Lophophyllidium multiseptum Lophophyllidium nucleum Lophophyllidium pendulum Lophophyllidium profundum Lophophyllidium proliferum Lophophyllidium robustum Lophophyllidium siamense Lophophyllidium striatum Lophophyllidium vallum Lophophyllidium vidriensis Lophophyllidium vietnamense Lophophyllidium xiangyashanense Lophophyllidium zaphrentoidea Sinophyllum breviseptatum Sinophyllum clavaeformis Sinophyllum parvum Sinophyllum pendulum Stereostylus annae Stereostylus bollibokkensis Stereostylus xizangensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Afghanistan (3 collections), Armenia (2), Bolivia (24), Cambodia (7), China (53), East Timor (1), Guatemala (1), Indonesia (1), Iran (8), Japan (2), Mexico (7), New Zealand (1), Oman (1), the Russian Federation (5), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (4), Tunisia (2), United States (47: California, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas), Venezuela (5)
• Carboniferous to Permian of Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (1), China (4), Mexico (2), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (2), United States (191: Arkansas, Illinois, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah)
Total: 379 collections including 471 occurrences
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