†superfamily Helioliticae Lindström 1876

Anthozoa - Heliolitida

Parent taxon: Heliolitina according to D. Hill 1981

Sister taxa: Heliolitoidea, Jiangshanolites, Proporicae

Subtaxa: Heliolitidae Pseudoplasmoporidae Stelliporellidae Taeniolitidae

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Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore

Distribution:

• Givetian of Morocco (2 collections)

• Devonian of Afghanistan (2), Australia (20), Austria (7), Belgium (3), Canada (2: Nunavut), China (3), Czechia (2), France (1), Germany (14), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (1), Laos (1), Morocco (3), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (11), Tajikistan (9), Thailand (7), the United Kingdom (4), United States (5: Alaska), Uzbekistan (3), Vietnam (14), Western Sahara (1)

• Jaani of Estonia (1)

• Niagaran of United States (1: Ohio)

• Silurian to Devonian of Pakistan (1)

• Silurian of Afghanistan (1), Australia (13), Belarus (1), Canada (69: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (31), Czechia (8), Estonia (1), Greenland (1), India (1), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (3), Malaysia (1), Mongolia (1), Norway (10), the Russian Federation (18), Sweden (24), Tajikistan (3), Ukraine (20), the United Kingdom (9), United States (47: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, New York, Oklahoma, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (1)

• Ordovician of Australia (22), Canada (5: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (23), Estonia (4), Kazakhstan (3), Mongolia (1), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (12), the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 466 collections including 709 occurrences

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