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 to Eocene of Slovakia (2)
• Paleocene of Nigeria (1), Slovakia (2)
• Cretaceous of Albania (1), Austria (6), Azerbaijan (1), Bulgaria (20), Chile (1), China (9), Czechia (11), Egypt (3), France (17), Georgia (16), Germany (7), Greece (11), Hungary (1), Iran (3), Jamaica (1), Japan (4), Mexico (9), Peru (1), Poland (4), Romania (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia (4), Slovenia (1), Spain (9), Switzerland (16), 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), Chile (1), China (9), Colombia (1), Croatia (1), Czechia (10), Eritrea (1), Ethiopia (15), France (87), Georgia (13), Germany (25), Greece (2), Hungary (1), India (5), Indonesia (8), Iran (14), Italy (6), Japan (5), Jordan (2), Lebanon (1), Madagascar (6), Mexico (1), Montenegro (1), Morocco (11), Myanmar (1), North Atlantic (1), Oman (1), Poland (24), Portugal (52), Romania (9), the Russian Federation (5), Saudi Arabia (6), Serbia (2), Slovakia (5), Slovenia (20), Somalia (5), Spain (9), Switzerland (16), Tajikistan (2), Thailand (2), Tunisia (15), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (3), the United Kingdom (12), United States (1: Arkansas), Uzbekistan (8)
• Triassic of China (4), Italy (3)
Total: 666 collections including 1544 occurrences