Stromatoporoidea - Stromatoporida - Stromatoporidae
Parent taxon: Stromatoporidae according to C. W. Stearn et al. 1999
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Stearn 1996
Sister taxa: Climacostroma, Eostromatopora, Glyptostromoides, Lineastroma, Neosyringostroma, Pseudotrupetostroma, Stromaporidium, Taleastroma
Subtaxa: Stromatopora arcuata Stromatopora chauffati Stromatopora cygnea Stromatopora discoidea Stromatopora gortanii Stromatopora hensoni Stromatopora huepschii Stromatopora prima
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Ethiopia (3 collections), India (1)
• Triassic of Italy (1)
• Givetian of China (1), Morocco (2)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (14), Australia (13), Austria (1), Belgium (3), Canada (49: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario), China (9), the Czech Republic (15), France (8), Germany (23), Iran (2), Mongolia (6), Morocco (1), New Zealand (2), Poland (7), the Russian Federation (8), Spain (16), Tajikistan (8), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (7: Alaska, California, Nevada, New York), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (6), Western Sahara (1)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (8: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Quebec), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (3), India (1), Latvia (1), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (6), Sweden (7), the United Kingdom (2), United States (30: Alaska, California, Indiana, Iowa, New York, West Virginia)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Northwest Territories)
• Ordovician of China (1), United States (2: Ohio, Tennessee)
Total: 277 collections including 360 occurrences
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