Anthozoa - Stauriida - Stauriidae
Parent taxon: Stauriina according to D. Hill 1981
See also Hill 1956, Merriam 1972 and Merriam 1974
Sister taxa: Amplexidae, Centristelidae, Kiziliidae, Neocolumnariidae, Pycnostylidae, Siphonophrentidae
Subtaxa: Astrictophyllum Ceriaster Columnolasma Crenulites Cyathophylloides Dendrostella Favistella Favistina Loyolophyllum Modesta Nadotia Neotabularia Palaeoentelophyllum Palaeolithostrotion Palaeophyllum Parastauria Placophyllum Prisciturben Proterophyllum Stauria Synaptophyllum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Devonian of Australia (8 collections), Austria (1), Canada (18: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Ontario), Czechia (2), Germany (4), Italy (1), the Russian Federation (14), Spain (8), Tajikistan (1), Thailand (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (26: Alaska, New York), Uzbekistan (1), Vietnam (5)
• Silurian to Devonian of the Russian Federation (1)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Canada (6: Northwest Territories, Ontario, Quebec), China (16), Estonia (3), the Russian Federation (5), Sweden (2), Ukraine (1), United States (9: Alaska, California, New York)
• Whiterockian of United States (1: California)
• Ordovician of Australia (10), Canada (50: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (14), Mongolia (6), Norway (3), the Russian Federation (8), United States (59: Alaska, California, Georgia, Kentucky, Michigan, New Mexico, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, Wyoming)
• Ibexian of United States (1: Nevada)
Total: 289 collections including 354 occurrences