†family Helioporidae Moseley 1876

Anthozoa - Helioporacea - Helioporidae

Parent taxon: Helioporacea according to W. Kiessling 2009

See also Baron-Szabo 1997

Sister taxa: Epiphaxum, Heliopora, Kaluginella, Octotremacis, Polytremacis

Subtaxa: Acropsammia Javanopora Parapolytremacis Progonopora Pseudopolytremacis

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of Indonesia (3 collections)

• Oligocene of Italy (6), Jamaica (2)

• Eocene of Croatia (2), the Czech Republic (2), Germany (1), Hungary (5), Italy (1), Spain (1)

• Paleocene of France (1), Ukraine (1)

• Cretaceous of Austria (5), Bulgaria (1), France (3), Germany (3), Greece (2), Japan (7), Romania (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (2), Uzbekistan (2)

Total: 52 collections including 56 occurrences

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