Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Parent taxon: Rhipidogyridae according to D. K. Pandey and F. T. Fürsich 2003
Sister taxa: Aplosmiliinae, Astreoidogyra, Barysmilia, Bodeurina, Columellogyra, Cymosmilia, Orbignygyra, Paraacanthogyra, Phytogyra, Placohelia, Pruvostastraea, Psammogyra, Pseudoironella, Psilogyra, Rhipidomeandra, Rhipidosmilia, Saltocyathus, Somalica, Starostinia, Tiaradendron
Subtaxa: Aplosmilia Codonosmilia Hexaflos Rhipidogyra
Ecology: stationary epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Austria (1 collection), Bulgaria (9), China (1), Georgia (2), Spain (3), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (2)
• Jurassic of Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (5), France (13), Georgia (5), Germany (9), Iran (5), Italy (4), Japan (1), Morocco (2), Poland (6), Portugal (10), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (4), Switzerland (4), Tunisia (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 96 collections including 146 occurrences