†family Stelliporellidae Bondarenko 1971 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Stelliporellidae

Full reference: O. B. Bondarenko. 1971. Obyem novogo semeystva Stelliporellidae (geliolitidy) [Members of the new family Stelliporellidae, subclass Heliolitoidea]. in Tabulyaty i geliolitoidei paleozoya SSSR [Paleozoic Tabulata and Heliolitoidea of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (1)166-178

Parent taxon: Helioliticae according to D. Hill 1981

See also Bondarenko 1971

Sister taxa: Heliolitidae, Pseudoplasmoporidae, Taeniolitidae

Subtaxa: Cosmiolithus Derivatolites Pachystelliporella Parastelliporella Podollites Stelliporella Syringoheliolites Tarbagatailites

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Silurian of Canada (15: Northwest Territories, Quebec collections), China (3), the Czech Republic (4), the Russian Federation (7), Sweden (3), Ukraine (13), the United Kingdom (3), United States (2: Alaska, Indiana)

• Ordovician of China (4), Estonia (3), Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (2)

Total: 60 collections including 74 occurrences

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