†superfamily Proporicae Sokolov 1949 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Heliolitida

Parent taxon: Heliolitina according to D. Hill 1981

Sister taxa: Helioliticae, Jiangshanolites

Subtaxa: Cyrtophyllidae Plasmoporellidae Plasmoporidae Proheliolitidae Proporidae Sibiriolitidae

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Devonian of Australia (4 collections), United States (2: New York)

• Silurian of Australia (3), Belarus (2), Canada (43: New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec), China (14), the Czech Republic (3), Estonia (2), Greenland (1), India (3), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (14), Sweden (14), Ukraine (4), the United Kingdom (2), United States (21: California, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Ohio), Uzbekistan (1)

• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (1: Québec), the Russian Federation (1)

• Ordovician of Australia (20), Canada (25: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (35), Estonia (3), Kazakhstan (2), Latvia (1), Lithuania (1), Mongolia (5), the Russian Federation (17), Sweden (1), United States (4: Alaska)

Total: 250 collections including 371 occurrences

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