Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Parent taxon: Stylinidae according to J. W. Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Acanthocoenia, Adelocoenia, Aplophyllia, Australoseris, Bilaterocoenia, Convexastrea, Cyathophorinae, Eugyriopsis, Goniocora, Proaplophyllia, Procyathophora, Pseudocoeniinae, Pseudocoeniopsis, Schizosmiliopsis, Sinaimeandra, Stylina, Stylininae, Stylohelia, Stylosmilia
Subtaxa: Enallhelia Euhelia Stylangia
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Panama (1 collection)
• Eocene of Italy (1)
• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (3), Greece (1), Hungary (1), Japan (1), Mexico (4), Serbia (1), Switzerland (8), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic of China (2), Czechia (2), France (8), Georgia (2), Germany (9), Italy (1), Japan (1), Morocco (4), Poland (1), Portugal (9), Romania (1), Slovakia (5), Slovenia (3), Spain (5), Tunisia (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 79 collections including 96 occurrences