Alternative spelling: Gorgonida
Parent taxon: Octocorallia according to R. L. Squires 1999
See also Bambach et al. 2007, Schlagintweit and Gawlik 2009 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Alcyonacea, Coenothecalia, Echmatocrinidae, Ellisella, Helioporacea, Heterocorallia, Pennatulacea, Plexauridae, Trachypsammia, Waiparaconidae
Subtaxa: Acabaria Axogaster Carpathoporella Coptocampylodon Corallium Eogorgia Gorgoniidae Krimella Melithaea Moltkia Nicella Paramoltkia Parisididae Petilavenula Primnoa Verrucella
Distribution:
• Quaternary of France (1 collection)
• Miocene of France (1), New Zealand (4), Spain (1)
• Oligocene of Italy (1), Somalia (1)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of Germany (2), Mexico (1), Spain (1), Tonga (1)
• Paleocene of Denmark (6), Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (1), Turkmenistan (2), Ukraine (2)
• Cretaceous of Albania (3), Czechia (4), Denmark (1), France (4), Germany (3), Iran (1), the Netherlands (5), Oman (1), Poland (1), Romania (5), Serbia (1), Spain (1), Ukraine (5)
• Triassic of Germany (1)
• Whitlandian of the United Kingdom (1)
• Ordovician of the United Kingdom (3)
Total: 68 collections including 83 occurrences