Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Lobophylliidae
Synonym: Acanthophyllia Wells 1937
Parent taxon: Lobophylliidae according to Dai and Horng 2009
See also Hill 1981, Kiessling 2014, Sepkoski 2002, Veron 2000 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Acanthastrea, Australomussa, Echinophyllia, Lobophyllia, Moseleya, Oxypora, Symphyllia
Subtaxa: Cynarina ampla Cynarina lacrymalis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Eritrea (1 collection), Japan (4)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Philippines (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene of Australia (1), the Marshall Islands (2), Romania (1), Turkey (1)
Total: 13 collections each including a single occurrence
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