Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Siderastreidae
Alternative spelling: Siderastraeidae
Parent taxon: Fungiina according to L. Beauvais 1986
See also Baron-Szabo 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Acrosmiliidae, Agariciicae, Andemantastraeidae, Astraeomorphidae, Astraraeidae, Dermosmiliidae, Felixaraeidae, Fungiacyathidae, Fungiicae, Funginellidae, Haplaraeidae, Kobyastraeidae, Microbaciidae, Pachyphyllidae, Poriticae, Procyclolitidae, Rhipidastraeidae, Synastraeidae
Subtaxa: Astraeofungia Eosiderastrea Hindeastraea Koilomorpha Maeandroseris Palaeosiderofungia Pironastrea Psammocora Pseudosiderastrea Siderastrea Siderastreites Siderofungia Sideroseris Siderosmilia Stephanomorpha Synhelia
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Angola (2 collections), Australia (4), the Bahamas (4), Barbados (12), Belize (2), Bermuda (1), Brazil (4), Cape Verde (6), Cayman Islands (26), Colombia (11), Costa Rica (15), Dominica (1), the Dominican Republic (9), Egypt (7), French Polynesia (3), Guam (1), Haiti (7), India (1), Indonesia (3), Jamaica (4), Japan (7), Malaysia (1), Mexico (5), the Netherlands Antilles (25), New Caledonia (3), New Zealand (9), Panama (21), Pitcairn (2), Saint Kitts and Nevis (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Spain (2), United States (15: Florida, Hawaii), Venezuela (1), Virgin Islands (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (7), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (1), United States (1: Florida)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (2), Colombia (1), Costa Rica (10), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Haiti (3), Indonesia (7), Jamaica (1), the Netherlands Antilles (5), Papua New Guinea (1), United States (10: California, Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (1)
• Miocene of Algeria (10), Anguilla (6), Austria (1), the Bahamas (2), Bulgaria (1), Colombia (5), Cyprus (2), the Dominican Republic (5), France (15), Germany (1), Greece (1), Grenada (1), Haiti (1), Hungary (2), Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Italy (10), Japan (1), Malta (1), Mexico (4), Morocco (5), Panama (10), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Puerto Rico (2), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Slovakia (2), Somalia (1), Spain (8), Trinidad and Tobago (6), Turkey (5), Ukraine (1), United States (3: Florida), Venezuela (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (3: Florida)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (5), Canada (1: British Columbia), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (1), France (1), Iran (1), Italy (7), Jamaica (2), Mexico (2), Puerto Rico (3), Somalia (1), Spain (1), Turkey (1), United States (5: California, Georgia, Washington), Venezuela (3)
• Eocene of Angola (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Germany (1), Italy (9), Mexico (4), Panama (1), Spain (5), Ukraine (2), United States (2: California, Washington)
• Paleocene of Argentina (1), Egypt (2), France (1), Pakistan (1), Puerto Rico (1), Slovenia (2), Spain (1), United States (2: Alabama)
• Cretaceous of Austria (6), Bulgaria (3), the Czech Republic (19), France (3), Georgia (1), Germany (7), Greece (3), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Jamaica (8), Jordan (1), Mexico (15), Oman (1), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (2), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (1), Spain (4), Switzerland (1), Tanzania (1), Turkey (1), Ukraine (1), United States (9: Texas), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (2)
• Jurassic of Germany (1), Madagascar (1), Morocco (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovenia (1)
Total: 577 collections including 687 occurrences