Propora Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Proporidae

Parent taxon: Proporidae according to J. W. Murray 1985

See also Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Acdalina, Baitalites, Diploepora, Ducdonia, Helenolites, Innapora, Koreanopora, Leleshusia, Rotalites, Thaumatolites

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Devonian of United States (2: New York collections)

• Silurian of Australia (1), Canada (29: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (8), the Czech Republic (3), Estonia (2), Greenland (1), India (1), the Russian Federation (11), Sweden (7), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (12: Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio), Uzbekistan (1)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec)

• Ordovician of Australia (16), Canada (3: Quebec), China (9), Estonia (2), Kazakhstan (2), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (3)

Total: 119 collections including 130 occurrences

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