Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Fungiidae
Synonyms: Cyclastraea Alloiteau 1952, Diaseris Milne-Edwards and Haime 1849, Pseudocycloseris Alloiteau 1957
Parent taxon: Fungiidae according to J. W. Wells 1956
See also Baron-Szabo 2002, Kiessling 2003, Kiessling 2008 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Axoseris, Cantharellus, Ctenactis, Danafungia, Discotrochus, Fungia, Funginellastraea, Halomitra, Heliofungia, Herpolitha, Hydnophyllon, Leptophyllon, Lithophyllon, Parahalomitra, Pleuractis, Podabacia, Polyphyllia, Reussiphyllon, Sandalolitha, Zoopilus
Subtaxa: Cyclastraea meltensis Cycloseris brazzanensis Cycloseris costulata Cycloseris cyclolites Cycloseris discoidea Cycloseris distorta Cycloseris erosa Cycloseris escosurae Cycloseris fragilis Cycloseris hungaricus Cycloseris lamellata Cycloseris marginata Cycloseris minuta Cycloseris patelliformis Cycloseris perezi Cycloseris sinensis Cycloseris somervillei Cycloseris striata Cycloseris vaughani
Type: Fungia cyclolites
Ecology: facultatively mobile low-level epifaunal microcarnivore
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Egypt (3 collections), Eritrea (3), India (1), Indonesia (2), Japan (7), New Zealand (2), Papua New Guinea (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Sudan (1), Taiwan (1), United States (1: Hawaii), Vanuatu (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (1)
• Pliocene of French Polynesia (1), Indonesia (5), Japan (1), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (1)
• Miocene of Brazil (2), Indonesia (2), the Marshall Islands (4), Pakistan (1), Tanzania (1), Vanuatu (1)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Hungary (5), Italy (3), Pakistan (1)
• Paleocene of Somalia (1)
• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1), Gabon (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), Ukraine (3)
Total: 64 collections including 83 occurrences
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