Stenolaemata - Cryptostomata - Acanthocladiidae
Synonym: Polyporidae Vine 1880
Parent taxon: Fenestellina according to A. Ernst 2000
See also Astrova and Morozova 1956, Bassler 1953, Gilmour and Snyder 2000, Tolokonnikova et al. 2014 and Wyse Jackson 1996
Sister taxa: Admiratellidae, Carnocladiidae, Fenestellidae, Fenestraliidae, Reteporinidae, Semicosciniidae, Septatoporidae, Septoporidae
Subtaxa: Acanthocladiinae Adlatipora Baculopora Diploporaria Diploporariinae Ichthyorachis Mackinneyella Matheropora Neopolypora Parapolypora Paucipora Polypora Polyporella Polyporellina Protoretepora Pseudopolypora Pteropora Ptylopora Reteporidra Samaria Synocladia Synocladiopsis Tibetiporella Wjatkella
Type: Acanthocladia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of France (1 collection)
• Permian of Afghanistan (12), Armenia (8), Australia (86), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (7), Bolivia (12), Canada (9: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (61), East Timor (1), Germany (19), Greece (2), Greenland (7), India (13), Indonesia (2), Iran (41), Italy (1), Japan (3), Laos (2), Lithuania (16), Malaysia (1), Mexico (1), Mongolia (8), Myanmar (2), New Zealand (2), Norway (5), Oman (21), Pakistan (25), Peru (9), Poland (12), the Russian Federation (116), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (26), Tajikistan (12), Thailand (12), Tunisia (1), Turkey (1), the United Arab Emirates (4), the United Kingdom (34), United States (159: Alaska, Kansas, Nevada, New Mexico, Texas, Washington)
• Virgilian of United States (5: Kansas, Texas)
• Desmoinesian of United States (6: Kansas, Oklahoma)
• Westphalian of Australia (1)
• Pennsylvanian of Australia (1), China (2), United States (4: California, New Mexico, Utah)
• Chesterian of United States (6: Arizona, Idaho, Utah, Virginia)
• Osagean of United States (7: Indiana, Montana, Utah, Virginia)
• Carboniferous to Permian of United States (3: California)
• Mississippian of United States (8: Alaska, Arizona, California, Indiana)
• Carboniferous of Antarctica (1), Argentina (1), Australia (10), Bolivia (1), Canada (2: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (1), Egypt (4), France (1), India (1), Ireland (3), Japan (4), Peru (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (14), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (2), the United Kingdom (15), United States (132: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Idaho-Utah, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Virginia)
• Devonian to Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1)
• Devonian of Canada (2: Ontario, Quebec), China (1), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (26), Iran (1), Morocco (2), New Zealand (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (6), the United Kingdom (5), United States (13: Michigan, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania), Western Sahara (1)
• Silurian of United States (4: New York)
• Ordovician of Estonia (1), Sweden (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (1: Pennsylvania)
Total: 1067 collections including 1797 occurrences