Anthozoa - Auloporida - Aulocystidae
Synonym: Sinoporidae Sokolov 1955
Parent taxon: Auloporicae according to D. Hill 1981
See also Klaamann 1966 and Niko 2009
Sister taxa: Auloheliidae, Auloporidae, Bajgoliidae, Fletcheriellidae, Kozlowskiocystiidae, Palaeofavosiporidae, Pyrgiidae, Romingeriidae, Trachypsammiidae
Subtaxa: Adaverina Adetopora Aulocystella Aulocystis Aulostegites Cystitrypanopora Metasinopora Pachyphragma Plexituba Pseudoromingeria Rossopora Sinoporella Syringocystis
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Cambodia (1 collection), China (7), Iran (5), Japan (4), Pakistan (1), Thailand (11)
• Carboniferous of the Russian Federation (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (8), Canada (2: Manitoba, Yukon), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (7), Germany (1), Morocco (3), Poland (5), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (102: Alaska, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania), Vietnam (1)
• Silurian of Canada (1: Quebec), Estonia (9), Japan (1), the Russian Federation (3), United States (1: New York)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), the Russian Federation (1)
Total: 180 collections including 213 occurrences