Parent taxon: Cystoporata according to A. Ernst and M. Carrera 2012
See also Bolton and Cuffey 2005, Jiménez-Sánchez 2009 and Koromyslova 2011
Sister taxa: Balticoporellina, Belorussipora, Cliocystiramus, Eofistulipora, Fistulicanta, Fistuliporina, Fistuliporoidea, Isphairamella, Mongolodictya, Odonotrypa, Podljassopra, Realeksella, Rhinoporella, Vasalemmapora, Xenotrypidae
Subtaxa: Ceramoporidae Natiscotecella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Canada (1: Alberta collection), the Czech Republic (1)
• Silurian of Belarus (3), Canada (2: Northwest Territories), Mongolia (2), Sweden (4), the United Kingdom (18), United States (23: Indiana, New York, Pennsylvania)
• Uhaku of the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (2)
• Chazyan of Canada (11: Quebec), United States (8: New York, Vermont, Virginia)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: Vermont)
• Arenig of United States (1: Oklahoma)
• Ordovician of Argentina (1), Canada (9: Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (3), Estonia (14), France (3), India (1), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (6), Spain (2), Sweden (5), the United Kingdom (1), United States (80: Alabama, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Minnesota, Minnesota, Iowa, Minnesota, Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Virginia, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa)
• Cambrian of Canada (1: Newfoundland and Labrador), United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 206 collections including 287 occurrences