†superfamily Helioliticae Lindström 1876 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Heliolitida

Parent taxon: Heliolitina according to D. Hill 1981

Sister taxa: Jiangshanolites, Proporicae

Subtaxa: Heliolitidae Pseudoplasmoporidae Stelliporellidae Taeniolitidae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Devonian of Afghanistan (2 collections), Australia (20), Austria (7), Belgium (3), Canada (2: Nunavut), China (3), the Czech Republic (2), France (1), Germany (30), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (1), Laos (1), Morocco (5), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (11), Tajikistan (9), Thailand (7), the United Kingdom (4), United States (5: Alaska), Uzbekistan (3), Vietnam (14), Western Sahara (1)

• Clinton of Canada (4: British Columbia)

• Silurian to Devonian of Pakistan (1)

• Niagaran of United States (1: Ohio)

• Silurian of Afghanistan (1), Australia (13), Belarus (1), Canada (65: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (31), the Czech Republic (8), Estonia (2), Greenland (1), India (1), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (3), Malaysia (1), Mongolia (1), Norway (10), the Russian Federation (18), Sweden (24), Tajikistan (3), Ukraine (20), the United Kingdom (9), United States (47: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, New York, Oklahoma, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (1)

• Ordovician of Australia (21), Canada (5: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (23), Estonia (4), Kazakhstan (2), Mongolia (1), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (12), the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 480 collections including 722 occurrences

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