Antiguastrea Vaughan 1919 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae

Alternative spelling: Antiguastraea

Full reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524

Parent taxon: Merulinidae according to W. Kiessling 2021

See also Baron-Szabo 2006, Kiessling 2008, López-Pérez 2005 and Sepkoski 2002

Sister taxa: Anisocoenia, Aquitanastraea, Astrea, Australogyra, Bikiniastrea, Boninastrea, Cladocora, Coelastrea, Cyphastrea, Dictuophyllia, Diplogyra, Dipsastraea, Echinopora, Edwardsastraea, Erythrastrea, Favites, Goniastrea, Hydnophora, Hydnophyllia, Leptoria, Liptodendron, Merulina, Monticulastraea, Mycedium, Orbicella, Oulophyllia, Paraclavarina, Paraleptoria, Paramontastraea, Parastrea, Pectinia, Phacellocoenia, Platygyra, Plavecia, Procladocora, Scapophyllia, Tarbellastraea, Trachyphyllia

Subtaxa: Antiguastrea alveolaris Antiguastrea cellulosa Antiguastrea elegans Antiguastrea flandrini Antiguastrea jacobi Antiguastrea lucasiana Antiguastrea prava

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Type: Antiguastrea cellulosa

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Miocene of Australia (1 collection), Colombia (5), France (5), Libya (1), United States (2: Florida)

• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)

• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (8), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (2), France (3), Greece (4), Haiti (1), Iran (1), Italy (46), Jamaica (2), Libya (3), Mexico (6), Puerto Rico (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovenia (2), Somalia (1), Spain (1), Turkey (1), United States (3: Florida, Georgia, Texas), Venezuela (3)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)

• Eocene of Germany (2), Hungary (6), Italy (4), Panama (1), Romania (1), Spain (3)

• Paleocene of Spain (1)

• Cretaceous of Jamaica (4), Mexico (2), Tajikistan (1)

• Jurassic of Algeria (1)

Total: 135 collections including 159 occurrences

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