Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Synonym: Antillia Duncan 1863
Parent taxon: Merulinidae according to D. Huang et al. 2014
See also Baron-Szabo 2006, Kiessling 2008, López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002, Squires 2001, Squires and Demetrion 1992, Veron 2000 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Anisocoenia, Antiguastrea, 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
Subtaxa: Antillia batequensis Antillia clarki Antillia cristata Antillia dentata Antillia dominicensis Antillia hadleyi Antillia heueri Antillia persica Antillia poculiformis Antillia turbinata Trachyphyllia bilobata Trachyphyllia crassa Trachyphyllia geoffroyi Trachyphyllia granti Trachyphyllia sawkinsi
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (4 collections), Costa Rica (2), Indonesia (1), Japan (4), Panama (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Bahamas (1), Indonesia (2), Jamaica (1)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (4), the Dominican Republic (2), Indonesia (2), Jamaica (2), Papua New Guinea (1), Taiwan (2), United States (2: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (1), Indonesia (1), United States (1: Puerto Rico)
• Miocene of Anguilla (2), Colombia (2), the Dominican Republic (5), Indonesia (5), Iran (1), Mexico (3), Pakistan (1), Panama (6), Trinidad and Tobago (3), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene of Jamaica (2), Turkey (3), United States (1: Georgia), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene of Colombia (2), Cuba (1), France (1), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (2), Mexico (4), North Atlantic (1), Panama (2)
• Paleocene of Pakistan (1), United States (1: Alabama)
Total: 86 collections including 100 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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