†family Proheliolitidae Kiaer 1899
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Proheliolitidae
Parent taxon: Proporicae according to D. Hill 1981
See also Norford 1967
Sister taxa: Cyrtophyllidae, Plasmoporellidae, Plasmoporidae, Proporidae, Sibiriolitidae
Subtaxa: Avicenia Kiaerolites Proheliolites Protoheliolites Schmidtilites
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of China (1 collection)
• Ordovician of China (6), Estonia (2), Kazakhstan (1), Latvia (1), Lithuania (1), Mongolia (3), the Russian Federation (2)
Total: 17 collections each including a single occurrence