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 (2 collections), Bulgaria (4), China (2), Czechia (8), France (7), Georgia (10), Germany (1), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (3), Poland (4), Romania (1), Serbia (1), Spain (3), Switzerland (2), 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), Czechia (7), Ethiopia (3), France (10), Georgia (10), Germany (4), India (1), Iran (5), Italy (3), Montenegro (1), Poland (11), Portugal (15), Romania (4), the Russian Federation (2), Slovenia (6), Spain (5), Switzerland (2), Tunisia (1), Uzbekistan (1)
Total: 165 collections including 221 occurrences