†family Palaeoporitidae Kiaer 1899
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Palaeoporitidae
Parent taxon: Coccoseridicae according to D. Hill 1981
Sister taxa: Coccoserididae, Ellisitidae, Pragnellia, Pycnolithidae, Urceopora
Subtaxa: Palaeoporites Protrochiscolithus Trochiscolithus
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Silurian of China (1 collection), United States (1: Ohio)
• Ordovician of Australia (4), Canada (10: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: New Mexico, Texas)
Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence