Anthozoa - Auloporida - Auloporidae
Parent taxon: Auloporicae according to D. Hill 1981
See also Klaamann 1966, Langenheim and McCutcheon 1959 and Niko 2005
Sister taxa: Aulocystidae, Auloheliidae, Bajgoliidae, Fletcheriellidae, Kozlowskiocystiidae, Palaeofavosiporidae, Pyrgiidae, Romingeriidae, Trachypsammiidae
Subtaxa: Aulocaulis Aulopora Auloporella Aulozoa Ceratopora Diorychopora Gundarina Mastopora Planalveolitella Syringoporinae
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Permian of Indonesia (3 collections), Iran (3), Italy (1), Japan (1), Tajikistan (1), United States (1: Texas)
• Carboniferous of Canada (2: Alberta, Nunavut), Kazakhstan (1), the Russian Federation (1), the United Kingdom (3), United States (21: Alaska, California, Idaho, Indiana, Montana, Nevada, Utah, Virginia)
• Givetian of China (1)
• Couvinien of Australia (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (5), Australia (33), Austria (3), Belgium (4), Canada (6: Alberta, Manitoba, Northwest Territories), China (6), the Czech Republic (4), France (10), Germany (21), Japan (3), Luxembourg (2), Morocco (11), Poland (2), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (5), Tajikistan (1), Turkey (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (122: Alaska, Arizona, California, Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania), Western Sahara (1)
• Jaani of Estonia (1)
• Silurian of Australia (3), Canada (9: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Quebec), China (1), the Czech Republic (2), Estonia (7), Greenland (1), Norway (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (12), the United Kingdom (1), United States (14: Alaska, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia)
• Ordovician of Australia (9), Canada (2: Newfoundland and Labrador, Ontario), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (3), Norway (1), United States (2: Tennessee)
Total: 355 collections including 390 occurrences