†family Cladophylliidae Morycowa and Roniewicz 1990 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Cladophylliidae

Full reference: E. Morycowa and E. Roniewicz. 1990. Revision of the genus Cladophyllia and description of Apocladophyllia gen. n. (Cladophylliidae fam. n., Scleractinia). Acta Palaeontologica Polonica 35(3-4):165-190

Parent taxon: Stylinina according to E. Morycowa and M. Misik 2005

Sister taxa: Agatheliidae, Cyathophoridae, Euheliidae, Euhellidae, Stylinidae

Subtaxa: Apocladophyllia Cellulastraea Cladophyllia Halysitastraea

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Type: Cladophyllia

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic

Distribution:

• Paleocene of Nigeria (1 collection)

• Cretaceous of Austria (2), Bulgaria (11), China (3), France (5), Germany (2), Greece (2), Iran (1), Jamaica (3), Mexico (6), Oman (1), Romania (1), Saudi Arabia (1), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (3), Switzerland (3), Turkey (2), Ukraine (1), United States (5: Texas), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1)

• Jurassic of Azerbaijan (5), Chile (8), Colombia (1), the Czech Republic (5), Ethiopia (1), France (33), Georgia (2), Germany (7), Iran (2), Italy (3), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (1), Morocco (6), Myanmar (1), Poland (2), Portugal (3), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (2), Slovakia (5), Slovenia (4), Spain (3), Switzerland (6), Thailand (1), Tunisia (3), the United Kingdom (3), Uzbekistan (3)

Total: 170 collections including 187 occurrences

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