Stromatoporoidea - Actinostromatida
Parent taxon: Stromatoporoidea according to C. W. Stearn et al. 1999
Sister taxa: Adriatella, Amphiporida, Andenipora, Axiotubullina, Cassianostroma, Ceraostroma, Circopora, Clathrodictyida, Clavidictyon, Coenostella, Cylicopsis, Desmopora, Diparistomaria, Disparistromaria, Ecclimadictyidae, Ellipsactinia, Forolina, Labechiida, 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: Actinostromatidae Actinostromellidae Densastromatidae Plumataliniidae Pseudolabechiidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Somalia (3 collections)
• Givetian of Canada (1: Manitoba), China (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (5), Australia (15), Austria (5), Belgium (4), Canada (22: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (10), the Czech Republic (32), France (12), Germany (22), Iran (2), Italy (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mongolia (2), Morocco (4), Poland (12), the Russian Federation (10), Spain (31), Tajikistan (5), Thailand (3), United States (7: Alaska, Iowa, Nevada, New York), Uzbekistan (2), Vietnam (9), Western Sahara (1)
• Jaani of Estonia (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of United States (1: Virginia)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (14: Manitoba, Quebec), China (1), Estonia (16), Latvia (1), Mongolia (3), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (22), Sweden (10), Tajikistan (3), Ukraine (10), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Indiana)
• Ordovician of China (1), Estonia (4)
Total: 314 collections including 514 occurrences