Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporida
Parent taxon: Stromatoporoidea according to C. W. Stearn et al. 1999
Sister taxa: Actinostromatida, 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, Stromatoporina, Stromatostroma, Syringostromatida, Tosastroma, Tubuliella, Xizangstromatopora
Subtaxa: Ferestromatoporidae Stromatoporidae Syringostromellidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Morocco (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (3), France (2), India (2)
• Triassic of China (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (3), Mexico (1)
• Givetian of China (1), Morocco (2)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (18), Australia (13), Austria (1), Belgium (4), Canada (71: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario), China (14), the Czech Republic (26), France (12), Germany (23), Iran (2), Mongolia (7), Morocco (3), New Zealand (2), Poland (10), the Russian Federation (12), Spain (28), Tajikistan (8), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (8: Alaska, California, Kentucky, Nevada, New York), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (9), Western Sahara (2)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (8: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Quebec), China (2), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (4), India (1), Ireland (1), Latvia (1), Mongolia (2), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (8), Sweden (9), Tajikistan (2), the United Kingdom (2), United States (30: Alaska, California, Indiana, Iowa, New York, West Virginia)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)
• Ordovician of China (1), United States (2: Ohio, Tennessee)
Total: 371 collections including 562 occurrences