Parent taxon: Stromatoporoidea according to C. W. Stearn et al. 1999
Sister taxa: Actinostromatida, Aculatostroma, Amnestostroma, Amphiporida, Andenipora, Auroria, Clavidictyon, Columna, Diparistomaria, Diplostroma, Drosdoria, Edelsteinia, Faciledictyon, Flexiostroma, Forolina, Hexastylostroma, Imponodictyon, Khasaktia, Labechiida, Lamellopora, Lecomptella, Maldeotaina, Mixtusdictyon, Nuratadictyon, Paramphipora, Perplexostroma, Petroidistroma, Plumatalina, Praeidiostroma, Pseudoactinostroma, Pseudostromatoporella, Rackovskia, Sergaelites, Shirdagopora, Stromatodictyon, Stromatoporellida, Stromatoporida, Synthetostroma, Syringostromatida, Trigonostroma, Vittia, Zeravshanella
Subtaxa: Actinodictyidae, Atelodictyidae, Clathrodictyidae, Gerronostromatidae, Tienodictyidae
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder-photosymbiotic