Full reference: D. Hill. 1981. Rugosa and Tabulata. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology 1(F)
Parent taxon: Stauriida according to J. Fedorowski et al. 2013
See also Hill 1981
Sister taxa: Arachnophyllina, 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, Stereolasmatina, Streptelasmatina, Tachylasmatina, Yatsengiidae
Subtaxa: Aphrophyllidae Aulophyllidae Ekvasophyllidae Neokoninckophyllidae Palaeosmiliidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Azerbaijan (1 collection), Cambodia (1), Canada (2: Nunavut), China (8), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Japan (2), Laos (1), Oman (1), the Russian Federation (1), Thailand (1), United States (29: Alaska, California, Kansas, Nevada, Texas), Vietnam (1)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (14), Australia (14), Belgium (2), Canada (47: Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut, Yukon), China (37), Egypt (1), France (4), Germany (3), Ireland (12), Japan (9), Mexico (1), Morocco (36), the Russian Federation (10), Spain (5), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Thailand (1), Turkey (4), Ukraine (8), the United Kingdom (90), United States (141: Alaska, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Wyoming)
• Devonian of China (1), Germany (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), United States (3: New Mexico)
• Silurian of Sweden (2)
Total: 503 collections including 844 occurrences