Anthozoa - Favositida - Cleistoporidae
Parent taxon: Favositoidea according to S. Niko and M. Badpa 2020
See also Hill 1981 and May 2006
Sister taxa: Agetolitidae, Favositidae, Micheliniidae, Multisoleniidae, Palaeacidae, Pseudofavositidae, Syringolitidae, Vaughaniidae
Subtaxa: Araeopora Araiostrotion Cleistopora Donetzites Ligulodictyum Maurenia Riphaeolites Squameophyllum Stratophyllum Yavorskia
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Permian of Pakistan (8 collections), Tunisia (1)
• Carboniferous of United States (3: California, Georgia, Montana)
• Devonian of France (1), Mongolia (1), Poland (1), the Russian Federation (17), Tajikistan (3), Vietnam (2)
• Silurian of China (2), the Russian Federation (2), Tajikistan (1), Ukraine (3)
Total: 45 collections including 54 occurrences