Stromatoporoidea - Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Parent taxon: Actinostromatida according to C. Stock 2015
See also Nestor 1964 and Stearn et al. 1999
Sister taxa: Actinostromellidae, Densastromatidae, Plumataliniidae, Pseudolabechiidae
Subtaxa: Actinostroma Bicolumnostratum Bifariostroma Neoclathrodictyon Plectostroma
Type: Actinostroma
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), Czechia (32), France (10), Germany (20), Iran (2), Italy (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mongolia (2), Morocco (4), Poland (12), the Russian Federation (10), Spain (31), Tajikistan (5), Thailand (3), United States (6: Alaska, Iowa, Nevada, New York), Uzbekistan (2), Vietnam (9), Western Sahara (1)
• Silurian of Canada (2: Manitoba), Estonia (9), Latvia (1), Mongolia (2), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (7), Sweden (7), Tajikistan (3), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (1: Indiana)
• Ordovician of China (1)
Total: 255 collections including 417 occurrences