Genus

Heliolites Dana, 1846

Selection of related publications

Vinn, O., Liang, K., Isakar, M., Alkahtane, A. A., Al Farraj, S., El Hedeny, M. 2025. The evolutionary innovation of coral colonization on motile gastropod shells arose shortly after the Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event in Baltica. Palaios 40, 2, 62-69. DOI:10.2110/palo.2024.010

Vinn, O., Liang, K., Toom, U. 2017. Endobiotic rugose coral symbionts in Silurian tabulate corals from Estonia (Baltica). Palaios 32, 3, 158-165. DOI:10.2110/palo.2016.084

Mõtus, M.-A., Vinn, O. 2009. The worm endosymbionts in tabulate corals from the Silurian of Podolia, Ukraine. Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences 58, 3, 185-192. DOI:10.3176/earth.2009.3.03

Vinn, O., Mõtus, M. 2008. The earliest endosymbiotic mineralized tubeworms from the Silurian of Podolia, Ukraine. Journal of Paleontology 82, 2, 409-414. DOI:10.1666/07-056.1

Mõtus, M.-A., Hints, O. (eds) 2007. 10th International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria and Porifera. Excursion B2: Lower Paleozoic geology and corals of Estonia. Excursion Guidebook. pp. 1-64. Institute of Geology at Tallinn University of Technology.

Mõtus, M.-A. 2006. Intraspecific variation in Wenlock tabulate corals from Saaremaa (Estonia) and its taxonomic implications. Proceedings of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. Geology 55, 1, 24-42. DOI:10.3176/geol.2006.1.02

Dixon, O. A. 1996. Heliolitine corals of the upper Douro Formation (upper Silurian), Canadian Arctic Islands. Journal of Paleontology 70, 5, 718-740. DOI:10.1017/S0022336000023787

Bondarenko, O. B. 1992. Sistema geliolitoidei [The system of heliolitoids]. pp. 1-205. Moskovskoe Obŝestvo Ispytateli Prirody.

Neuman, B. E. E., Kershaw, S. 1991. VI International Symposium on Fossil Cnidaria including Archaeocyatha and Porifera. Pre-Symposium excursion A1 Gotland/Sweden. pp. 1-111. University of Bergen.

Klaamann, E. 1984. Heliolitidis in the East Baltic Late Silurian coral communities. Eesti NSV Teaduste Akadeemia Toimetised. Geoloogia / Известия Академии наук Эстонской ССР. Геология 33, 2, 63-69. DOI:10.3176/geol.1984.2.04

Nestor, H. 1981. The relationships between stromatoporoids and heliolitids. Lethaia 14, 1, 21-25. DOI:10.1111/j.1502-3931.1981.tb01069.x

Stel, J. H., de Coo, J. C. M. 1977. The Silurian Upper Burgsvik and Lower Hamra-Sundre Beds, Gotland. Scripta Geologica 44, 1-43.

Lindström, G. 1899. Remarks on the Heliolitidae. Kungliga Svenska Vetenskapsakademiens Handlingar 32, 1, 1-140. P. A. Norstedt & Söner.

List of species

1. Heliolites baltica (Klaamann, 1984) | Ludlow

2. Heliolites daintreei Nicholson et Etheridge, 1879 | Adavere Stage→Paadla Stage

3. Heliolites interstinctus (Linnaeus, 1767) | Adavere Stage→Kuressaare Stage

4. Heliolites megastoma (McCoy, 1846) | Homerian

5. Heliolites spongodes Lindström, 1899

6. Heliolites subdecipiens Klaamann, 1984 | Ludlow

Classification

Organism group	Biota
Kingdom	Animalia
Phylum	Cnidaria
Subphylum	Anthozoa
Subclass	Tabulata
Superorder	Heliolitoidea
Suborder	Heliolitina
Superfamily	Helioliticae
Family	Heliolitidae
Genus	Dnestrites
	Heliolites
Species	baltica
	daintreei
	interstinctus
	megastoma
	spongodes
	subdecipiens
Genus	Helioplasma
	Helioplasmolites
	Okopites
	Syringoheliolites
	Vishkilites
unranked	Paraheliolites