Ufimia Shtukenberg 1895 (horn coral)

Anthozoa - Stauriida - Plerophyllidae

Synonym: Rhopalolasma Hudson 1936

Parent taxon: Plerophyllidae according to J. Fedorowski and E. W. Bamber 2001

See also Hill 1956, Hill 1981 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Barbarella, Baryphyllinae, Cryptophyllum, Paracaninia, Plerophyllinae, Plerophyllum

Subtaxa: Ufimia arctica Ufimia carbonaria Ufimia differentiata Ufimia elongata Ufimia hunzensis Ufimia khaokaeonoiensis Ufimia persymmetricum Ufimia vanganensis

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Type: Ufimia carbonaria

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Permian of Armenia (6 collections), Azerbaijan (28), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (6), Greenland (1), Iran (14), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (2), Thailand (3)

• Osagean of United States (1: Utah)

• Carboniferous of China (1), France (1), Germany (1), Ireland (1), Morocco (2), Poland (2), Spain (1), United States (1: Nevada)

• Devonian of Spain (1)

Total: 74 collections including 95 occurrences

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