Anthozoa - Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Parent taxon: Aulophyllina according to J. Fedorowski et al. 2013
See also Hill 1956, Hill 1981 and Kawamura and Stevens 2012
Sister taxa: Aphrophyllidae, Ekvasophyllidae, Neokoninckophyllidae, Palaeosmiliidae
Subtaxa: Amygdalophyllinae Aulophyllinae Clisiophyllinae Corwenia Delepinella Dibunophyllinae Espielia Fedorowskiphyllum Heritschioidinae Heterocaniniinae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Azerbaijan (1 collection), Canada (2: Nunavut), China (6), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Japan (2), Laos (1), Oman (1), the Russian Federation (1), Thailand (1), United States (26: Alaska, California, Kansas, Nevada, Texas), Vietnam (1)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (11), Australia (9), Belgium (2), Canada (6: Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut), China (33), Egypt (1), France (4), Germany (3), Ireland (11), Japan (8), Morocco (27), the Russian Federation (10), Spain (4), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Turkey (3), Ukraine (5), the United Kingdom (62), United States (70: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Germany (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), United States (3: New Mexico)
• Silurian of Sweden (2)
Total: 326 collections including 491 occurrences