Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Alternative spelling: Dimorphastraea
Synonym: Leptophyllastraea Oppenheim 1930
Parent taxon: Latomeandridae according to R.C. Baron-Szabo 2021
See also Baron-Szabo 2002, Beauvais 1986, Kiessling 2014, López-Pérez 2005, Löser 2010, Roniewicz 1976, Sepkoski 2002, Turnsek 1997 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Aggomorphastraea, Brachyseris, Collignonastraea, Comophyllia, Digitosmilia, Ellipsocoenia, Fungiaphyllia, Fungiastraea, Latiastrea, Latomeandra, Loboseris, Microphyllia, Microphylliopsis, Mixastraea, Ovalastrea, Periseris, Thalamocaeniopsis, Thamnoseris, Trigerastraea, Trochoplegmopsis, Valliculastraea, Vallimeandra
Subtaxa: Dimorphastraea renevieri Dimorphastraea triadica Dimorphastrea bellula Dimorphastrea composita Dimorphastrea concentrica Dimorphastrea conica Dimorphastrea cosmanni Dimorphastrea delaunayi Dimorphastrea dubia Dimorphastrea excavata Dimorphastrea explanata Dimorphastrea fallax Dimorphastrea fungiformis Dimorphastrea glomerata Dimorphastrea grandiflora Dimorphastrea heteromorpha Dimorphastrea irradians Dimorphastrea irregulare Dimorphastrea lamellosa Dimorphastrea mitodaensis Dimorphastrea parvistella Dimorphastrea petalophyes Dimorphastrea radiata Dimorphastrea ratshensis Dimorphastrea regularis Dimorphastrea scutellum Dimorphastrea solida Dimorphastrea speciosa Dimorphastrea stantoni Dimorphastrea subturonensis Dimorphastrea sulcosa Dimorphastrea tendagurensis Dimorphastrea tenuistriata Dimorphastrea tenustriata Dimorphastrea toucasi Dimorphastrea udzlourensis Dimorphastrea vasiformis Dimorphastrea vaughani Dimorphastrea waehneri
Type: Dimorphastrea grandiflora
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Japan (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Italy (1)
• Eocene of the Czech Republic (1), United States (1: Washington)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1), the Netherlands (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (11), Bulgaria (6), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (4), Georgia (3), Germany (5), Greece (1), India (1), Iran (2), Japan (3), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), the Netherlands (1), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Romania (1), Slovenia (4), Spain (8), Sweden (1), Switzerland (4), Tanzania (2), Turkmenistan (3), Ukraine (3), United States (1: Texas)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1), Japan (1), Poland (1)
• Jurassic of Azerbaijan (1), Belarus (1), the Czech Republic (1), France (1), Georgia (1), Germany (6), Greece (1), India (1), Iran (2), Morocco (1), Poland (2), Portugal (6), Romania (6), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Spain (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 118 collections including 153 occurrences
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