†family Soanitidae Nitecki 1971
Parent taxon: Radiocyatha according to Q.-J. Li et al. 2019
See also Li et al. 2015
Sister taxa: Acanthinocyathida, Hetairacyathidae, Uranosphaeridae
Subtaxa: Calathium
Distribution:
• Whiterockian of United States (2: New York, Utah collections)
• Chazyan of United States (2: Vermont)
• Arenig of Argentina (2), China (9), United States (7: Oklahoma, Texas)
• Arenigian of South Korea (1), United States (6: Nevada)
• Ordovician of Argentina (2), Canada (4: Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador), China (27), Malaysia (1), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Korea (3), the United Kingdom (1), United States (17: Oklahoma, Texas, Utah)
• Ibexian of United States (1: Utah)
Total: 87 collections including 88 occurrences