Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Full reference: Y.e. V. Krasnov and E. A. Starostina. 1970. Pozdneyurskiye skleraktinii severnogo Kavkaza [Late Jurassic scleractinians of the northern Caucasus region]. in Mezozoyskiye korally SSSR [Mesozoic corals of the USSR], Papers of II Allunion Symposium on fossil corals of the USSR (4)75-80
Parent taxon: Rhipidogyridae according to E. Roniewicz 1976
Sister taxa: Aplosmiliinae, Barysmilia, Bodeurina, Cymosmilia, Orbignygyra, Paraacanthogyra, Phytogyra, Placohelia, Pruvostastraea, Psammogyra, Pseudoironella, Psilogyra, Rhipidogyrinae, Rhipidosmilia, Saltocyathus, Somalica, Tiaradendron
Subtaxa: Ironella arabica, Ironella giseldonensis, Ironella rutimeyeri, Ironella tskhanariensis
Type: Ironella giseldonensis
Ecology: stationary epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder