Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Parent taxon: Heliolitidae according to Dixon 1998
See also Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Coccoserinae, Dnestrites, Esthonia, Helioplasma, Helioplasmolites, Ningqiangolites, Okopites, Pachycanalicula, Paeckelmannopora, Saaremolites
Subtaxa: Heliolites barrandei Heliolites occidentales Heliolites porosus Heliolites waicunensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Givetian of Morocco (2 collections)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (2), Australia (16), Austria (7), Belgium (3), Canada (2: Nunavut), China (3), the Czech Republic (2), France (1), Germany (29), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (1), Laos (1), Morocco (3), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (11), Tajikistan (4), Thailand (7), the United Kingdom (4), United States (5: Alaska), Uzbekistan (2), Vietnam (14), Western Sahara (1)
• Jaani of Estonia (1)
• Niagaran of United States (1: Ohio)
• Silurian to Devonian of Pakistan (1)
• Silurian of Afghanistan (1), Australia (11), Belarus (1), Canada (63: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (25), the Czech Republic (8), Estonia (1), Greenland (1), India (1), Kazakhstan (3), Malaysia (1), Norway (4), the Russian Federation (6), Sweden (22), Ukraine (11), the United Kingdom (9), United States (45: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, New York, Oklahoma, Wisconsin)
• Ordovician of Australia (17), Canada (4: Nunavut), China (15), Estonia (1), Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (5), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 391 collections including 538 occurrences
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