Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
Parent taxon: Faviina according to D. Turnsek 1997
Sister taxa: Cladocoridae, Columastreidae, Diplocteniopsidae, Eugyridae, Faviicae, Isastreidae, Misistellidae, Mussidae, Oculinidae, Pamiroseriidae, Phyllocoeniidae, Placocoeniidae, Placosmiliidae, Stylophyllicae, Tropidastraeidae
Subtaxa: Ellipsasteria Heliastrea
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of New Caledonia (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Haiti (1)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (1), Cyprus (2), France (19), Greece (6), Haiti (3), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (5), Libya (1), Morocco (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Romania (2), Saudi Arabia (2), Somalia (5), Spain (9), Turkey (4), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene of France (3), Italy (3), Libya (3), Somalia (5)
• Eocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Italy (1)
• Cretaceous of Chile (1), Georgia (2), Greece (1), Jamaica (1), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Switzerland (1), Tajikistan (1)
• Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 93 collections including 160 occurrences