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Halysitidae is an extinct family of tabulate corals.
| Halysitidae Temporal range: Ordovician to Silurian | |
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| Halysites catenularia | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Cnidaria |
| Class: | †Tabulata |
| Family: | †Halysitidae Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 |
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]
- Acanthohalysites Hamada 1957
- Catenipora Lamarck 1816
- Cystihalysites Chernyshev 1941
- Eocatenipora Hamada 1957
- Falsicatenipora Hamada 1958
- Halysites von Waldheim 1828
- Hexismia Sokolov 1955
- Quepora Sinclair 1955
- Schedohalysites Hamada 1957
- Solenihalysites Stasinska 1967
- Spumaeolites Zhizhina 1967
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