Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Parent taxon: Stylinidae according to J. W. Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Acanthocoenia, Adelocoenia, Aplophyllia, Australoseris, Bilaterocoenia, Convexastrea, Cyathophorinae, Eugyriopsis, Euheliinae, Goniocora, Proaplophyllia, Procyathophora, Pseudocoeniinae, Pseudocoeniopsis, Schizosmiliopsis, Sinaimeandra, Stylina, Stylohelia, Stylosmilia
Subtaxa: Heliocoenia Psammohelia
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Austria (5 collections), Bulgaria (4), China (2), the Czech Republic (8), France (7), Georgia (10), Germany (1), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (3), Poland (4), Romania (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (3), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (2), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (3)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1), Japan (1), Poland (1)
• Jurassic of Azerbaijan (8), Belarus (1), China (1), Colombia (1), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (7), Ethiopia (3), France (10), Georgia (10), Germany (4), India (1), Iran (5), Italy (3), Poland (12), Portugal (15), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (3), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovenia (6), Spain (5), Switzerland (2), Tunisia (1), Uzbekistan (1)
Total: 169 collections including 228 occurrences