†family Palaeosmiliidae Hill 1940 (horn coral)
Anthozoa - Stauriida - Palaeosmiliidae
Parent taxon: Aulophyllina according to D. Hill 1981
Sister taxa: Aphrophyllidae, Aulophyllidae, Ekvasophyllidae, Neokoninckophyllidae
Subtaxa: Palaeosmiliinae Palastraea Qinghaiphyllum
Type: Palaeosmilia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Cambodia (1 collection), China (4)
• Carboniferous of Algeria (7), Belgium (1), Canada (1: Nunavut), China (11), France (2), Ireland (5), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (25), the Russian Federation (7), Spain (4), Thailand (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (53), United States (7: California, Nevada)
• Devonian of Germany (1), Poland (1)
Total: 135 collections including 181 occurrences