Full reference: D. Hill. 1981. Rugosa and Tabulata. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology 1(F)
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, Stauriina, Streptelasmatina, Tachylasmatina, Yatsengiidae
Subtaxa: Antiphyllidae Hapsiphyllidae Stereolasmatidae Zaphrentoididae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (32 collections), Azerbaijan (1), Cambodia (3), Canada (9: British Columbia, Nunavut), China (45), Greece (1), Greenland (3), Hong Kong (1), India (1), Iran (2), Japan (1), Mongolia (2), New Zealand (3), the Russian Federation (4), Slovenia (3), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (3), Thailand (6), Timor-Leste (1), Tunisia (2), United States (18: Nevada, Texas)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (7), Australia (3), Canada (11: Alberta, Northwest Territories, Yukon), China (19), Egypt (3), Germany (3), Ireland (11), Japan (2), Mexico (1), Morocco (8), the Netherlands (3), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (2), Türkiye (2), Ukraine (11), the United Kingdom (89), United States (243: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, Wyoming)
• Devonian of Australia (2), Canada (1: Manitoba), China (4), Germany (2), Spain (5), Türkiye (2), United States (146: Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, Montana, Montana, and Wyoming, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Indiana)
• Silurian of Canada (23: Manitoba, Ontario), the Russian Federation (1), United States (6: Iowa, New York, Oklahoma, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician of Canada (3: Manitoba)
Total: 764 collections including 1072 occurrences