Anthozoa - Favositida - Alveolitidae
Parent taxon: Alveolitina according to E. Klaamann 1964
See also Murray 1985
Sister taxa: Coenitidae, Hyostragulum
Subtaxa: Alveolitinae Caliaporinae Microalveolites Natalophyllinae Tuvaelites
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Permian of Germany (3 collections), Italy (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2)
• Couvinien of Australia (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (41), Australia (43), Austria (6), Belgium (7), Canada (29: Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (17), the Czech Republic (30), France (6), Germany (87), Italy (2), Mongolia (15), Morocco (16), Poland (28), the Russian Federation (26), Spain (46), Tajikistan (9), Thailand (10), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (15), United States (56: Alaska, California, Indiana, Kentucky, Nevada, New York), Vietnam (27), Western Sahara (3)
• Clinton of Canada (1: British Columbia)
• Silurian to Devonian of Pakistan (1)
• Silurian of Australia (5), Belarus (1), Canada (24: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (16), Estonia (16), Kazakhstan (3), Mongolia (6), the Russian Federation (29), Sweden (9), Ukraine (9), the United Kingdom (2), United States (22: Alaska, California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (1)
Total: 675 collections including 1111 occurrences