Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Synonyms: Lepidophylliopsis Beauvais and Stump 1976, Montlivaltoides He and Xiao 1990, Thecosmiliopsis Lebanidze 1991
Parent taxon: Montlivaltiidae according to Z. M. Lebanidze 1991
See also Baron-Szabo 2009, Beauvais and Stump 1976, Kiessling 2008, Kiessling 2014, Roniewicz 1976 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anisastraea, Brevimaeandra, Ceratothecia, Clausastrea, Coenotheca, Complexastraeopsis, Complexastrea, Confusastrea, Cyathophyllia, Cyathophylliopsis, Dimorphocoenia, Elasmophyllia, Goldfussastraea, Goldfussastrea, Isastrea, Mapucheastrea, Margarastreopsis, Montlivaltiinae, Nerthastraea, Neuquinosmilia, Paraclausastraea, Paraphyllogyra, Peplosmilia, Placosmilia, Placosmiliinae, Puschastraea, Rhabdophyllia, Thecomeandra, Trochophyllia, Trochosmilia
Subtaxa: Thecosmilia acaulis Thecosmilia annularis Thecosmilia bassanii Thecosmilia buonamici Thecosmilia cartieri Thecosmilia complanata Thecosmilia costata Thecosmilia cumanensis Thecosmilia delaunayi Thecosmilia densa Thecosmilia dichotoma Thecosmilia elegans Thecosmilia eudenticulata Thecosmilia furcata Thecosmilia gregaria Thecosmilia gresslyi Thecosmilia guerreroensis Thecosmilia hideshimaensis Thecosmilia hoernesii Thecosmilia irregularis Thecosmilia jaccardi Thecosmilia lancisii Thecosmilia langi Thecosmilia longimana Thecosmilia magna Thecosmilia martini Thecosmilia minuta Thecosmilia moraviensis Thecosmilia multigranulata Thecosmilia neglecta Thecosmilia ngariensis Thecosmilia norica Thecosmilia oaxaquensis Thecosmilia omboni Thecosmilia panasqueirensis Thecosmilia qingyanensis Thecosmilia rofanica Thecosmilia rutogensis Thecosmilia somaensis Thecosmilia tibetana Thecosmilia typica Thecosmilia virgulina Thecosmilia vurguni Thecosmilia weberi Thecosmilia zagaliensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of Italy (2 collections)
• Cretaceous of Austria (7), Bulgaria (6), China (4), Egypt (1), Germany (1), Greece (2), Iran (1), Japan (1), Mexico (5), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (2), Ukraine (2), United States (1: Texas), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (4)
• Jurassic of Argentina (3), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (4), Chile (1), China (1), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (8), France (48), Georgia (8), Germany (21), Indonesia (1), Iran (7), Japan (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (9), Myanmar (1), Poland (10), Portugal (17), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (4), Slovakia (5), Slovenia (3), Spain (3), Switzerland (12), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (2), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (19), Uzbekistan (5)
• Triassic of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Chile (1), China (3), Indonesia (2), Italy (11), United States (11: Alaska, Nevada, Oregon), Vietnam (1)
Total: 279 collections including 355 occurrences
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