Anthozoa - Auloporida - Tetraporellidae
Parent taxon: Syringoporicae according to D. Hill 1981
Sister taxa: Chonostegitidae, Gorskyitidae, Multithecoporidae, Periphaceloporidae, Roemeriidae, Syringoporidae, Thecostegitidae
Subtaxa: Hayasakaia Labyrinthites Pseudoroemeria Spiroclados Syringoporinus Tetraporinus Troedssonites
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (35 collections), Norway (6), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Thailand (1)
• Carboniferous of United States (2: Idaho)
• Devonian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Silurian of China (3), the Russian Federation (5), United States (1: Alaska)
• Ordovician of Canada (6: Newfoundland and Labrador, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), the Russian Federation (17), United States (3: Alaska)
Total: 81 collections including 120 occurrences