Stromatoporoidea - Actinostromatida - Actinostromatidae
Synonyms: Auroria [objective synonym], Auroriina Bogoyavlenskaya 1977, Lamelliostroma Bogoyavlenskaya 1977, Trigonostroma Bogoyavlenskaya 1969
Parent taxon: Actinostromatidae according to C. W. Stearn et al. 1999
See also Bolshakova and Ulitina 1985, Khromykh 2008, Novack-Gottshall 2022, Sepkoski 2002 and Stearn 1996
Sister taxa: Bicolumnostratum, Bifariostroma, Neoclathrodictyon, Plectostroma
Subtaxa: Actinostroma expansum Actinostroma fenestratum Actinostroma filixtextum Actinostroma pachypilatum Actinostroma praesalevensis Actinostroma quasifenestratum Actinostroma redwaterense Actinostroma stellulatum Actinostroma tyrrelli Actinostroma undulatum Lamelliostroma crassum
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Jurassic of Somalia (3 collections)
• Givetian of Canada (1: Manitoba), China (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (5), Australia (13), Austria (5), Belgium (4), Canada (21: Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (10), the Czech Republic (28), France (12), Germany (22), Iran (2), Italy (2), Kyrgyzstan (1), Mongolia (2), Morocco (4), Poland (12), the Russian Federation (10), Spain (23), Tajikistan (4), Thailand (3), United States (6: Alaska, Iowa, Nevada), Uzbekistan (2), Vietnam (8), Western Sahara (1)
• Silurian of Canada (2: Manitoba), the Russian Federation (3), Sweden (3), Tajikistan (1), United States (1: Indiana)
• Ordovician of China (1)
Total: 216 collections including 343 occurrences
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