Parent taxon: Stauriida according to R. L. S. Brownlaw and J. S. Jell 2008
See also Hill 1981 and Pedder and Murphy 1997
Sister taxa: Arachnophyllina, Aulophyllina, Calostylina, Caniniina, Columnariina, Columnaxonidae, Cyathophyllina, Diffingiina, Heritschioides hammani, Ketophyllina, Kleopatrinidae, Lithostrotionina, Lomaphyllum, Lonsdaleiina, Lophophyllidiidae, Lophotichiidae, Lycophyllina, Mccloudius parvus, Metriophyllina, Mictocystoides, Nanophyllum, Paraceriaster, Petalaxidae, Petraphyllidae, Plerophyllina, Romanophyllidae, Stauriina, Stereolasmatina, Streptelasmatina, Tachylasmatina, Yatsengiidae
Subtaxa: Fasciphyllidae Ptenophyllidae Spongophyllidae Stringophyllidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of China (1 collection), the Russian Federation (4)
• Givetian of China (1), Morocco (2)
• Couvinien of Australia (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (1), Australia (42), Austria (6), Belgium (11), Canada (38: Alberta, Alberta, Saskatchewan, Mackenzie, British Colombia-Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (16), Czechia (5), France (1), Germany (37), Italy (2), Kazakhstan (4), Laos (1), Mauritania (7), Mongolia (4), Morocco (3), Myanmar (2), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (55), Spain (27), Tajikistan (19), Thailand (6), Türkiye (1), the United Kingdom (9), United States (60: Alaska, California, Nevada, Pennsylvania), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (13), Western Sahara (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Tajikistan (2)
• Silurian of Australia (3), Belarus (1), Canada (1: Yukon), China (2), Czechia (1), Mongolia (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (5), Sweden (1), Ukraine (9), the United Kingdom (1), United States (19: Alaska, California, Indiana, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia), Venezuela (1)
Total: 432 collections including 913 occurrences