从６０年代开始，我国学者陆续发表了异珊瑚的研究成果，建立１３个属，描述１６０余种。所发现属种数量已大大超过国外学者所描述范围，并且在异珊瑚分类、骨骼微细构造及隔壁演变规律研究等方面都取得长足的进展。特别是发现具３个隔壁的异珊瑚，对异珊瑚的隔壁发育方式及各属间隔壁变异关系有了较清楚地揭示。在分类方面可将异珊瑚划分为具内沟和不具内沟的两个系列。异珊瑚在我国产出时代为泥盆纪早期至石炭纪晚期。我国的异珊瑚绝大多数产于早石炭世大塘期的海相地层内，常与Ｙｕａｎｏｐｈｙｌｕｍ带的皱纹珊瑚共生，是划分早石炭世地层的重要化石 Since the 1960s, Chinese scholars have successively published the research results of different corals, establishing 13 genera and describing more than 160 species. The number of genus species discovered has greatly exceeded the range described by foreign scholars and made great progress in the research on the classification of different corals, the fine structure of bones and the evolution of the adjacent wall. In particular, the discovery of three coral isolates revealed the relationship between the developmental patterns of isolates and the variation of the adjacent genera in different corals. In terms of classification, different corals can be divided into two series with and without inner groove. Different corals in China’s output era for the early Devonian to Late Carboniferous. Most of China’s coral corals are found in marine strata of the Datang Period of the Early Carboniferous, and often coexist with the wrinkled coral in the Yuanophylum belt, which is an important fossil that divides the Early Carboniferous strata