Full reference: D. Hill. 1981. Rugosa and Tabulata. Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology 1(F)
Parent taxon: Stauriida according to J. Fedorowski et al. 2013
See also Hill 1981
Sister taxa: Arachnophyllina, 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, Ptenophyllina, Romanophyllidae, Stauriina, Stereolasmatina, Streptelasmatina, Tachylasmatina, Yatsengiidae
Subtaxa: Aphrophyllidae Aulophyllidae Ekvasophyllidae Neokoninckophyllidae Palaeosmiliidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Wolfcamp of United States (5: California collections)
• Permian of Azerbaijan (1), Cambodia (1), Canada (2: Nunavut), China (8), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Japan (2), Laos (1), Oman (1), the Russian Federation (1), Thailand (1), United States (24: Alaska, California, Kansas, Nevada, Texas), Vietnam (1)
• Atokan of United States (2: Texas)
• Pennsylvanian of Canada (1: Nunavut), United States (2: Oregon, Utah)
• Chesterian of United States (6: Arkansas, Wyoming)
• Osagean of United States (5: California, Montana, Utah)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (14), Australia (14), Belgium (2), Canada (46: Alberta, British Columbia, Nunavut, Yukon), China (35), Egypt (1), France (4), Germany (3), Ireland (12), Japan (9), Mexico (1), Morocco (26), the Russian Federation (10), Spain (5), Svalbard and Jan Mayen (1), Thailand (1), Turkey (4), Ukraine (8), the United Kingdom (90), United States (122: Alaska, Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Wyoming)
• Mississippian of United States (4: Alaska, California, Utah)
• Devonian of China (1), Germany (1), Poland (3), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), United States (3: New Mexico)
• Silurian of Sweden (2)
Total: 491 collections including 803 occurrences