†family Palaeoporitidae Kiaer 1899 (tabulate coral)

Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Palaeoporitidae

Parent taxon: Coccoseridicae according to D. Hill 1981

Sister taxa: Coccoserididae, Ellisitidae, Pragnellia, Pycnolithidae, Urceopora

Subtaxa: Palaeoporites Protrochiscolithus Trochiscolithus

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Silurian of China (1 collection), United States (1: Ohio)

• Ordovician of Australia (4), Canada (10: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec), Mongolia (1), the Russian Federation (1), United States (2: New Mexico, Texas)

Total: 20 collections each including a single occurrence

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