†family Coccoserididae Kiaer 1899 (tabulate coral)
Anthozoa - Heliolitida - Coccoserididae
Parent taxon: Coccoseridicae according to Y. N. Cui et al. 2022
See also Hill 1981 and Murray 1985
Sister taxa: Ellisitidae, Palaeoporitidae, Pragnellia, Pycnolithidae, Urceopora
Subtaxa: Acidolites Coccoseris Protaraea
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Silurian of Canada (5: Ontario, Quebec collections), Estonia (9), India (2)
• Chazyan of United States (6: New York)
• Ordovician of Australia (21), Canada (10: Northwest Territories, Nunavut, Ontario, Quebec), China (2), Estonia (9), Norway (1), the Russian Federation (1), Sweden (1), United States (51: Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, Texas)
Total: 118 collections including 124 occurrences