Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Proporidae
Parent taxon: Proporicae according to D. Hill 1981
See also Murray 1985
Sister taxa: Cyrtophyllidae, Plasmoporellidae, Plasmoporidae, Proheliolitidae, Sibiriolitidae
Subtaxa: Acdalina Baitalites Diploepora Ducdonia Helenolites Innapora Koreanopora Leleshusia Propora Rotalites Thaumatolites
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Devonian of United States (2: New York collections)
• Silurian of Australia (1), Belarus (2), Canada (29: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (8), Czechia (3), Estonia (1), Greenland (1), India (1), Mongolia (1), North Atlantic (1), the Russian Federation (13), Sweden (9), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (12: Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio), Uzbekistan (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec)
• Ordovician of Australia (16), Canada (3: Quebec), China (11), Estonia (2), Kazakhstan (3), Mongolia (2), the Russian Federation (4)
Total: 130 collections including 148 occurrences