Zaphriphyllum

Zaphriphyllum is an extinct genus of horn coral belonging to the suborder Stariidae and family Ekvasophyllidae.^[2] Specimens have been found in Mississippian beds in North America^[3] and Turkey.^[4] It is the characteristic coral of the Kelly Limestone of New Mexico, US.^[3]

Zaphriphyllum Temporal range: Devonian-Mississippian ~365–343 Ma PreꞒ Ꞓ O S D C P T J K Pg N
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Cnidaria
Subphylum:	Anthozoa
Class:	†Rugosa
Order:	†Stauriida
Family:	†Ekvasophyllidae
Genus:	†Zaphriphyllum Sutherland 1954[1]
Species
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Original description

Sutherland first described it in 1954 from a rock containing a fauna of the Middle Mississippian age in the Northern territory of Canada.^[3] Sutherland proposed the genus Zaphriphyllum for those zaphrentids which still possess a trochoid shape and pronounced cardinal fossula and consistently have dissepiments. These forms usually also show a tendency toward a radial arrangement of the septa in the immediate area of the cardinal fossula. Zaphriphyllum closely resembles Amplexizaphrentis Vaughan; except that, as Sutherland (personal communication) has pointed out, the latter is characterized by the absence, or very sparse and discontinuous development, of dissepiments.^{[citation needed]}

Species

• Z. casteri Armstrong 1958^[3]
• Z. daleki Denayer 2015^[4]