Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Placophylliidae
Parent taxon: Rhipidogyrina according to E. Morycowa and M. Misik 2005
Sister taxa: Rhipidogyridae, Trochoidomeandridae
Subtaxa: Diplocoeniella Placophyllia
Type: Placophyllia
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Eocene of Libya (1 collection)
• Cretaceous of Austria (4), Bulgaria (1), Germany (1), Hungary (1), Mexico (2), Poland (3), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (2), Switzerland (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1)
• Jurassic of Bulgaria (1), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (5), Georgia (2), Germany (7), Indonesia (1), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Poland (3), Portugal (15), the Russian Federation (2), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (5), Tajikistan (2)
Total: 69 collections including 81 occurrences