Halysitidae
| Halysitidae Temporal range: Ordovician to Silurian
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| Halysites catenularia | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Subclass: | †Tabulata |
| Family: | †Halysitidae Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 |
Halysitidae is an extinct family of tabulate corals.
These tabulate corals lived from Ordovician to Devonian (from 471.8 to 412.3 Ma). Fossil corals of the family Halysitidae have been found in the sediments of Afghanistan, Canada, United States, Venezuela and Australia.[1]
Genera[]
- Hamada 1957
- Catenipora Lamarck 1816
- Chernyshev 1941
- Hamada 1957
- Hamada 1958
- Halysites von Waldheim 1828
- Sokolov 1955
- Sinclair 1955
- Hamada 1957
- Stasinska 1967
- Zhizhina 1967
References[]
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- Tabulata
- Prehistoric cnidarian families
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- Silurian extinctions
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