Stromatoporoidea - Syringostromatida
Parent taxon: Stromatoporoidea according to C. W. Stearn et al. 1999
Sister taxa: Actinostromatida, Adriatella, Amphiporida, Andenipora, Axiotubullina, Cassianostroma, Ceraostroma, Circopora, Clathrodictyida, Clavidictyon, Coenostella, Cylicopsis, Desmopora, Diparistomaria, Disparistromaria, Ecclimadictyidae, Ellipsactinia, Forolina, Labechiida, Lamellata, Lamellopora, Lithopora, Megastroma, Milleporidium, Mixtusdictyon, Myrioporina, Paratubuliella, Parksia, Perplexostroma, Plumatalina, Praeidiostroma, Pseudoactinostroma, Reticullina, Sergaelites, Shirdagopora, Siphostroma, Sphaeractinia, Sporadoporidium, Steinerella, Stromatoporellata, Stromatoporellida, Stromatoporellina, Stromatoporida, Stromatoporina, Stromatostroma, Tosastroma, Tubuliella, Xizangstromatopora
Subtaxa: Coenostromatidae Stachyoditidae Syringostromatidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Givetian of Canada (1: Manitoba collection), China (1), Morocco (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (20), Australia (17), Austria (4), Belgium (5), Canada (40: Alberta, British Columbia, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario), China (11), the Czech Republic (31), France (11), Germany (44), Iran (4), Italy (5), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mongolia (2), Morocco (11), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (24), Spain (13), Tajikistan (8), Thailand (7), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (47: Idaho, Iowa, Nevada, New York, Ohio), Uzbekistan (2), Vietnam (12), Western Sahara (1)
• Silurian to Devonian of Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Virginia)
• Silurian of Australia (2), Belarus (2), Canada (2: Ontario), China (1), Estonia (4), Latvia (1), Mongolia (3), the Russian Federation (10), Sweden (8), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (10), United States (1: New York)
Total: 380 collections including 620 occurrences