Parent taxon: Heliolitina according to D. Hill 1981
Sister taxa: Heliolitoidea, Jiangshanolites, Proporicae
Subtaxa: Heliolitidae Pseudoplasmoporidae Stelliporellidae Taeniolitidae
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