Stromatoporoidea - Amphiporida
Parent taxon: Stromatoporoidea according to C. W. Stearn et al. 1999
Sister taxa: Actinostromatida, Adriatella, 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: Amphiporidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Devonian of Afghanistan (6 collections), Australia (13), Austria (3), Belgium (4), Canada (39: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (11), the Czech Republic (52), France (2), Germany (35), Italy (3), Mongolia (2), Morocco (8), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (14), Spain (1), Tajikistan (12), Thailand (4), the United Kingdom (1), United States (55: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Iowa, Nevada, North Dakota), Uzbekistan (2), Vietnam (16), Western Sahara (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Tajikistan (1)
• Silurian of China (1), the Russian Federation (11), Tajikistan (2), Ukraine (2), United States (5: Alaska, Indiana)
Total: 308 collections including 467 occurrences