Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Haplaraeidae
Parent taxon: Fungiida according to H. Löser and S. Ferry 2006
See also Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Acrosmiliidae, Agariciicae, Andemantastraeidae, Astraeomorphidae, Astraraeidae, Dermosmiliidae, Felixaraeidae, Fungiacyathidae, Fungiicae, Funginellidae, Kobyastraeidae, Microbaciidae, Pachyphyllidae, Poriticae, Procyclolitidae, Rhipidastraeidae, Siderastreidae, Synastraeidae
Subtaxa: Actinaraea Camptodocis Confusastraraea Diplaraea Haplaraeinae Leptophyllaraea Meandraraea Meandrophylliinae Physoseris Pleurocora Pseudofavia Summigaraea
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of France (1 collection), Indonesia (4)
• Oligocene of France (1)
• Eocene of North Atlantic (1)
• Paleocene of Ukraine (1)
• Cretaceous of Antarctica (1), Armenia (1), Austria (14), Bulgaria (4), China (2), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (8), France (12), Georgia (4), Germany (8), Greece (7), Hungary (2), India (1), Iran (3), Jamaica (5), Japan (9), Jordan (1), Madagascar (2), Mexico (13), the Netherlands (5), Oman (2), Poland (3), Romania (3), Serbia and Montenegro (5), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (1), Spain (20), Switzerland (3), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (3), Turkey (1), Turkmenistan (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (1), United States (6: New Mexico, Texas), Venezuela (4)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1), Japan (3)
• Jurassic of Algeria (2), Argentina (1), Azerbaijan (1), Bulgaria (1), China (1), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (3), France (54), Georgia (2), Germany (21), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Japan (1), Lebanon (1), Morocco (3), Poland (13), Portugal (8), Romania (5), the Russian Federation (3), Saudi Arabia (4), Serbia and Montenegro (4), Slovenia (5), Somalia (1), Spain (5), Switzerland (7), Tanzania (2), Thailand (1), Tunisia (3), the United Kingdom (2), Uzbekistan (1)
Total: 332 collections including 445 occurrences