Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Parent taxon: Merulinidae according to D. Huang et al. 2014
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Veron 2000
Sister taxa: Anisocoenia, Antiguastrea, Aquitanastraea, Astrea, Australogyra, Bikiniastrea, Boninastrea, Cladocora, Coelastrea, Cyphastrea, Dictuophyllia, Diplogyra, Dipsastraea, Echinopora, Edwardsastraea, Erythrastrea, Favites, Goniastrea, Hydnophora, Hydnophyllia, Liptodendron, Merulina, Monticulastraea, Mycedium, Orbicella, Oulophyllia, Paraclavarina, Paraleptoria, Paramontastraea, Parastrea, Pectinia, Phacellocoenia, Platygyra, Plavecia, Procladocora, Scapophyllia, Tarbellastraea, Trachyphyllia
Subtaxa: Leptoria angigyra Leptoria bithecata Leptoria cantharelloides Leptoria cristata Leptoria hayae Leptoria italica Leptoria laxa Leptoria netchensis Leptoria patellaris Leptoria pauca Leptoria paucisepta Leptoria pennata Leptoria phrygia Leptoria reticulata Leptoria selenkae Leptoria spenceri Leptoria traba
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (4 collections), Djibouti (1), Egypt (1), French Polynesia (4), Guam (2), India (1), Indonesia (2), Iran (1), Japan (10), Jordan (1), Kenya (2), Malaysia (1), Mauritius (2), New Caledonia (8), New Zealand (2), Papua New Guinea (12), Pitcairn (2), Saudi Arabia (3), the Seychelles (3), Taiwan (2), Vanuatu (7)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Indonesia (3), the Philippines (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
• Pliocene of Indonesia (8), Japan (3), Malaysia (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Taiwan (1)
• Miocene of Fiji (3), Iran (2), Papua New Guinea (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Christmas Island (3), Somalia (1)
• Oligocene of Cuba (1), Greece (4), Iran (1), Italy (9), Jamaica (2), Venezuela (1)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)
• Eocene of Austria (1), Italy (2), North Atlantic (1), Panama (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Spain (2)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1)
• Cretaceous of Jamaica (2)
Total: 131 collections including 145 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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