Parent taxon: Favositida according to E. Klaamann 1964
See also Murray 1985
Sister taxa: Dendropora, Favositina, Lamottiidae, Oculiporidae, Thamnoporina, Trachyporidae
Subtaxa: Alveolitidae Coenitidae Hyostragulum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Permian of Germany (3 collections), Italy (2), the United Kingdom (1)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (2), United States (1: Utah)
• Givetian of China (1), Morocco (4)
• Couvinien of Australia (2)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (41), Australia (56), Austria (6), Belgium (7), Canada (48: Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Yukon), China (17), the Czech Republic (33), France (6), Germany (95), Italy (2), Japan (4), Mongolia (16), Morocco (14), Poland (28), the Russian Federation (34), Spain (46), Tajikistan (9), Thailand (10), Turkey (2), the United Kingdom (16), United States (68: Alaska, California, Indiana, Kentucky, Nevada, New Jersey, New York), Vietnam (27), Western Sahara (3)
• Jaani of Estonia (6)
• Niagaran of United States (2: Indiana, Ohio)
• Silurian to Devonian of Pakistan (1)
• Silurian of Australia (10), Belarus (1), Canada (32: British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (19), the Czech Republic (1), Estonia (12), India (2), Kazakhstan (3), Mongolia (6), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (29), Sweden (17), Ukraine (9), the United Kingdom (6), United States (25: Alaska, California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, New York, Ohio, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (1)
Total: 789 collections including 1428 occurrences