Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Heliolitidae
Parent taxon: Helioliticae according to D. Hill 1981
See also Hill 1953 and Kiessling 2003
Sister taxa: Pseudoplasmoporidae, Stelliporellidae, Taeniolitidae
Subtaxa: Coccoserinae Dnestrites Esthonia Heliolites Helioplasma Helioplasmolites Ningqiangolites Okopites Pachycanalicula Paeckelmannopora Saaremolites
Type: Heliolites
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Givetian of Morocco (2 collections)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (2), Australia (18), Austria (7), Belgium (3), Canada (2: Nunavut), China (3), the Czech Republic (2), France (1), Germany (30), Italy (4), Kazakhstan (1), Laos (1), Morocco (3), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (2), Spain (11), Tajikistan (9), 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 (13), Belarus (1), Canada (68: British Columbia, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (30), the Czech Republic (8), Estonia (1), Greenland (1), India (1), Ireland (1), Kazakhstan (3), Malaysia (1), Mongolia (1), Norway (10), the Russian Federation (11), Sweden (23), Tajikistan (3), Ukraine (12), the United Kingdom (9), United States (46: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, New York, Oklahoma, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (1)
• Ordovician of Australia (20), Canada (5: Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (15), Estonia (1), Kazakhstan (1), Mongolia (1), Norway (2), the Russian Federation (10), the United Kingdom (2)
Total: 443 collections including 607 occurrences