Parent taxon: Stromatoporoidea according to B.D. Webby 2015
See also Stearn et al. 1999
Sister taxa: Actinostromatida, Adriatella, Amphiporida, Andenipora, Axiotubullina, Cassianostroma, Ceraostroma, Circopora, Clathrodictyida, Clavidictyon, Coenostella, Cylicopsis, Desmopora, Diparistomaria, Disparistromaria, Ecclimadictyidae, Ellipsactinia, Forolina, Lamellata, Lamellopora, Lithopora, Megastroma, Milleporidium, Mixtusdictyon, Myrioporina, Paratubuliella, Parksia, Perplexostroma, Plumatalina, Praeidiostroma, Pseudoactinostroma, Reticullina, Sergaelites, Shirdagopora, Siphostroma, Sphaeractinia, Sporadoporidium, Steinerella, Stromatoporellata, Stromatoporellida, Stromatoporellina, Stromatoporida, Stromatoporina, Stromatostroma, Syringostromatida, Tosastroma, Tubuliella, Xizangstromatopora
Subtaxa: Aulaceratidae Labechiidae Lophiostromatidae Platiferostromatidae Rosenellidae Stromatoceriidae Stylostromatidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Triassic of Tajikistan (1 collection)
• Devonian of Canada (2: Alberta), China (1), the Czech Republic (13), Poland (1), Spain (2)
• Jaani of Estonia (1)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Belarus (1), Canada (16: Manitoba, Quebec), China (3), Estonia (30), Ireland (1), Latvia (1), the Russian Federation (23), Sweden (15), Ukraine (8), the United Kingdom (2)
• Chazyan of Canada (5: Ontario, Quebec, Québec), United States (13: New York, Vermont)
• Whiterockian of United States (2: Vermont)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (10: Québec)
• Ordovician of Australia (30), Canada (81: Manitoba, Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (28), Estonia (12), Malaysia (1), Mongolia (8), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (6), South Korea (3), United States (92: Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia)
• Tremadoc of China (1)
Total: 415 collections including 620 occurrences