Stromatoporoids are found in the Dayville and Deansboro Members of the Coeymans Formation in central New York, where they are common to rare. The most common species present are Habrostroma centrotum (Girty) and H. microporum (Girty). Present in lesser numbers are Parallelostroma foveolatum (Girty), Atopostroma sp. 1, A. sp. 2, Coenostroma cf. C. monticuliferum (Winchell), Coenostroma sp., Habrostroma cf. H. centrotum (Girty), and Coenostelodictyon cf. C. krekovi (Yavorsky). Although previously reported from the Coeymans, Coenostelodictyon jewetti (Girty) was not found. Species identifications were based on traditional qualitative methods, supplemented by statistics. The assemblage bears affinities with Lochkovian faunas in Virginia and the Canadian Arctic.

Stromatoporoids are found in all five members of the Manlius Formation of New York and are abundant at many localities. The fauna is dominated by two closely related species, Habrostroma microporum (Girty) and H. centrotum (Girty). Present in lesser numbers are Intexodictyon manliusense n. sp., Plectostroma micum (Bogoyavlenskaya), Actinostromella vaiverensis Nestor, Densastroma pexisum (Yavorsky), Habrostroma cf. H. centrotum (Girty), and ?Parallelostroma sp. The assemblage displays both Silurian and Devonian affinities.

Stromatoporoids were a common component of shallow carbonate environments of North America, Eurasia, and Australia during the Devonian. They were least abundant during the Early Devonian. After that time abundance increased, and remained high steadily through the Frasnian. At the Frasnian-Famennian boundary the number of stromatoporoids was greatly diminished, but they did not become extinct until the end of the Devonian (at the end of the Strunian). The geographic extent of stromatoporoids expanded and contracted concurrently with increases and decreases in total population size. Provincialism at the genus level prevailed during the Early Devonian, with stromatoporoids inhabiting the Old World and Eastern Americas Realms; none are known from the Eastern Americas during the Siegenian. For the remainder of the Devonian stromatoporoids were cosmopolitan at the genus level. The abundance of stromatoporoids varied directly with eustatic sea level during the Devonian. Variations in depositional conditions apparently controlled the local distribution of genera.

Stromatoporoids are the major fossil faunal element of the Upper Limestone Member of the Keyser Formation in an outcrop at Mustoe, Virginia. The member is divided into four subunits at Mustoe, in ascending order: a bioherm, two biostromes, and a laminated micritic subunit. Stromatoporoids are found in all subunits, and they decrease in quantity upward. Nine species are described in three genera: Plexodictyon cf. P. waparksi Stearn, Parallelostroma typicum (Rosen), P. kaugatomicum (Riabinin), P. barretti (Girty), P. cf. P. barretti, P. keyserense n. sp., P. longicolumnum n. sp., P. multicolumnum n. sp., and Densastroma pexisum (Yavorsky). With the exception of P. barretti, a Lower Devonian stromatoporoid, the species of stromatoporids found at Mustoe have been known only from Silurian rocks in other areas.

Girty (1895) named six species of stromatoporoids from the Lower Devonian of central and east-central New York, which are here redescribed and reillustrated. Additional new specimens provide data on variations within the following species:Anostylostroma jewetti, Parallelostroma foveolatum, ?Parallelostroma centrotum, and ?Parallelostroma microporum.