†family Plasmoporellidae Kovalevskiy 1964 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Plasmoporellidae

Parent taxon: Proporicae according to D. Hill 1981

Sister taxa: Cyrtophyllidae, Plasmoporidae, Proheliolitidae, Proporidae, Sibiriolitidae

Subtaxa: Acdalopora Camptolithus Mcleodea Neowormsipora Plasmoporella Proporella

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Silurian of Canada (1: Quebec collection), China (1), India (1)

• Ordovician to Silurian of the Russian Federation (1)

• Ordovician of Australia (10), Canada (1: Northwest Territories), China (31), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (4)

Total: 52 collections including 71 occurrences

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