Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Parent taxon: Actinastreidae according to H. Löser 2012
Sister taxa: Actinastrea, Agrostyliastraea, Allocoenia, Allocoeniopsis, Araucanastrea, Chondrocoenia, Coenastraea, Columactinastraea, Floriastrea, Holocoenia, Protostephanastrea, Sedekastrea, Stephanastrea, Texastrea
Subtaxa: Stelidioseris bellensis Stelidioseris decaphylla Stelidioseris gibbosa Stelidioseris hourqi Stelidioseris japonica Stelidioseris kunthi Stelidioseris major Stelidioseris melkarthi Stelidioseris minima Stelidioseris pattoni Stelidioseris retifera Stelidioseris tendagurensis Stelidioseris tourtiensis Stelidioseris whitneyi
Type: Astrocoenia gibbosa
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Eocene of France (1 collection)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1)
• Cretaceous of Azerbaijan (2), Bulgaria (5), Chile (1), China (3), France (3), Georgia (1), Germany (4), Greece (3), Iran (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (2), Poland (3), Portugal (1), Serbia and Montenegro (3), Spain (8), Switzerland (2), Tanzania (8), United States (5: Texas), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (2)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (1), Canada (1: British Columbia), Mexico (1), Morocco (1)
Total: 66 collections including 74 occurrences
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