Anthozoa - Favositida - Favositidae
Parent taxon: Favositidae according to E. Klaamann 1964
See also Murray 1985
Sister taxa: Emmonsiinae, Gephuropora, Pachyfavositinae, Palaeofavositinae, Paleofavosites, Paleofavositinae, Squamites
Subtaxa: Astrocerium Beiliupora Crenulipora Dictyofavosites Favosites Hattonia Issolites Klaamannipora Lamellaeoporella Ozopora Rudakites Salairia Sapporipora Squameopora Striatoporella
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Permian of Australia (2 collections), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Italy (1), United States (1: Alaska)
• Carboniferous of the United Kingdom (1), United States (2: Georgia, Kentucky)
• Givetian of Morocco (3)
• Couvinien of Australia (1)
• Devonian of Afghanistan (4), Australia (46), Austria (7), Belgium (9), Canada (54: Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Yukon), China (15), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (2), France (3), Germany (34), Italy (1), Japan (1), Kazakhstan (1), Kyrgyzstan (1), Laos (1), Mongolia (9), Morocco (10), New Zealand (6), the Russian Federation (42), Saudi Arabia (1), South Africa (1), Spain (17), Tajikistan (23), Thailand (3), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (207: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Montana, Nevada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee), Uzbekistan (4), Venezuela (1), Vietnam (17)
• Jaani of Estonia (10)
• Niagaran of United States (3: Indiana, New York, Ohio)
• Silurian to Devonian of Australia (1), Pakistan (1), the Russian Federation (1), South Pacific (1), Tajikistan (1), United States (2: Oklahoma, Virginia)
• Silurian of Afghanistan (2), Argentina (1), Australia (16), Belarus (2), Canada (119: British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Northwest Territories, Northwest Territories and Yukon, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec, Québec, Yukon), China (59), the Czech Republic (8), Estonia (41), Greenland (7), India (5), Kazakhstan (4), Lithuania (1), Malaysia (1), Mongolia (9), Norway (11), Paraguay (1), the Russian Federation (101), Sweden (24), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (11), the United Kingdom (19), United States (165: Alaska, California, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Missouri, Nebraska, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin), Uzbekistan (1)
• Ordovician to Silurian of Canada (8: British Columbia, Northwest Territories), United States (1: Alaska)
• Ordovician to Devonian of Canada (1: Nunavut)
• Ordovician of Australia (1), Canada (12: Manitoba, Northwest Territories, Nunavut), China (4), the United Kingdom (5), United States (20: Georgia, Wyoming)
Total: 1219 collections including 1840 occurrences