Anthozoa - Stauriida - Aulophyllidae
Synonym: Rodophyllum Thomson 1874
Parent taxon: Dibunophyllinae according to D. Hill 1981
See also Hill 1956 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Arachniophyllum, Arachnolasma, Biphyllum, Caninostrotion, Cystilophophyllum, Diaschophyllum, Eostrotion, Faberolasma, Haplolasma, Katranophyllum, Koninckophylloides, Lophophrentis, Nagatophyllum, Sestrophyllum, Slimoniphyllum, Spirophyllum, Turbinatocaninia, Yakovleviella, Yuanophyllum
Subtaxa: Dibunophyllum arachnoforme Dibunophyllum bipartitum Dibunophyllum lambii Dibunophyllum moorei Dibunophyllum uddeni
Type: Clisiophyllum bipartitum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (2 collections), United States (13: Kansas, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (5), Belgium (1), Canada (4: Alberta, Nova Scotia), China (9), France (2), Ireland (2), Japan (3), Morocco (19), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (23), United States (28: Idaho, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas)
• Devonian of Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 123 collections including 138 occurrences
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