Parent taxon: Stauriida according to D. Hill 1981
Sister taxa: Arachnophyllina, Aulophyllina, Calostylina, Caniniina, Columnariina, Columnaxonidae, Cyathophyllina, Diffingiina, Heritschioides hammani, Ketophyllina, Kleopatrinidae, Lithostrotionina, Lomaphyllum, Lonsdaleiina, Lophophyllidiidae, Lophotichiidae, Lycophyllina, Mccloudius parvus, Metriophyllina, Mictocystoides, Nanophyllum, Paraceriaster, Petalaxidae, Petraphyllidae, Plerophyllina, Ptenophyllina, Romanophyllidae, Stereolasmatina, Streptelasmatina, Tachylasmatina, Yatsengiidae
Subtaxa: Amplexidae Centristelidae Kiziliidae Neocolumnariidae Pycnostylidae Siphonophrentidae Stauriidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (5 collections), Azerbaijan (1), China (6), Indonesia (4), Italy (1), Myanmar (1), Timor-Leste (1), United States (4: Alaska, Texas), Vietnam (1)
• Carboniferous of Australia (2), Belgium (1), China (2), France (2), Ireland (7), Morocco (5), the Russian Federation (4), Spain (1), Türkiye (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (21), United States (48: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, Tennessee, Utah, Wyoming)
• Givetian of Morocco (2)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (9), Australia (9), Austria (1), Belgium (1), Canada (23: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario), China (7), Czechia (3), Germany (9), Italy (1), Kazakhstan (2), Mauritania (2), Mongolia (1), Morocco (3), the Russian Federation (18), Spain (16), Tajikistan (6), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (118: Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (5), Western Sahara (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1)
• Silurian of Australia (9), Canada (30: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec), China (27), Estonia (3), Japan (1), Mongolia (4), the Russian Federation (8), Sweden (3), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (1), United States (29: Alaska, California, Indiana, Iowa, Nevada, New York, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (1)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: California)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (2: Northwest Territories)
• Ordovician of Australia (10), Canada (41: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (15), Mongolia (6), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (6), United States (55: Alaska, California, Georgia, Kentucky, New Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
• Ibexian of United States (1: Nevada)
• Paleozoic of United States (1: Alaska)
Total: 621 collections including 800 occurrences