Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Stylinidae
Parent taxon: Stylinina according to E. Morycowa and D. Decrouez 2006
See also Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Agatheliidae, Cladophylliidae, Cyathophoridae, Euheliidae, Euhellidae
Subtaxa: Acanthocoenia Adelocoenia Aplophyllia Australoseris Bilaterocoenia Convexastrea Cyathophorinae Eugyriopsis Euheliinae Goniocora Proaplophyllia Procyathophora Pseudocoeniinae Pseudocoeniopsis Schizosmiliopsis Sinaimeandra Stylina Stylininae Stylohelia Stylosmilia
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Panama (1 collection)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Italy (1), Mexico (1), Pakistan (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Somalia (2)
• Paleocene of Nigeria (1)
• Cretaceous of Albania (1), Austria (12), Bulgaria (18), Chile (1), China (9), the Czech Republic (11), Egypt (3), France (17), Georgia (16), Germany (7), Greece (11), Hungary (1), Iran (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (4), Mexico (9), Peru (1), Poland (4), Romania (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (4), Slovenia (1), Spain (9), Switzerland (9), Tanzania (2), Trinidad and Tobago (3), Tunisia (1), Turkmenistan (3), Ukraine (4), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1), China (1), Japan (7), Poland (2), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Algeria (3), Argentina (4), Austria (1), Azerbaijan (21), Belarus (1), Bulgaria (3), Canada (1: Nova Scotia), Chile (1), China (9), Colombia (1), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (10), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (15), France (79), Georgia (13), Germany (25), Greece (2), Hungary (1), India (5), Indonesia (8), Iran (14), Italy (5), Japan (5), Jordan (2), Lebanon (1), Madagascar (6), Mexico (1), Morocco (11), Myanmar (1), Oman (1), Poland (24), Portugal (52), Romania (9), the Russian Federation (5), Saudi Arabia (6), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (20), Somalia (5), Spain (9), Switzerland (16), Tajikistan (2), Thailand (2), Tunisia (15), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (11), United States (1: Arkansas), Uzbekistan (8)
• Triassic of China (4), Italy (3)
Total: 643 collections including 1477 occurrences