Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Latomeandridae
Alternative spelling: Latomaeandra
Synonyms: Chorisastrea Fromentel 1861, Latimaeandra Milne-Edwards and Haime 1857
Parent taxon: Latomeandridae according to E. Roniewicz 1976
See also Laube 1865, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Aggomorphastraea, Brachyseris, Collignonastraea, Comophyllia, Digitosmilia, Dimorphastrea, Ellipsocoenia, Fungiaphyllia, Fungiastraea, Latiastrea, Loboseris, Microphyllia, Microphylliopsis, Mixastraea, Ovalastrea, Periseris, Thalamocaeniopsis, Thamnoseris, Trigerastraea, Trochoplegmopsis, Valliculastraea, Vallimeandra
Subtaxa: Latimaeandra alaskana Latimaeandra benoisti Latimaeandra eucystis Latimaeandra meyeri Latimaeandra polymorpha Latomaeandra labyrinthica Latomeandra delemontana Latomeandra dubia Latomeandra fromenteli Latomeandra isseli Latomeandra juettneri Latomeandra mayeri Latomeandra minor Latomeandra mitodaensis Latomeandra obliqua Latomeandra orthogrammica Latomeandra plicata Latomeandra ramosa Latomeandra richei Latomeandra steini
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Indonesia (1 collection)
• Oligocene of Italy (1)
• Eocene of Pakistan (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (1), Bulgaria (9), France (1), Germany (1), Greece (3), Romania (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (3)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (2)
• Jurassic of Azerbaijan (1), Bulgaria (1), Chile (1), the Czech Republic (3), Ethiopia (2), France (6), Germany (11), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (2), Japan (3), Lebanon (1), Myanmar (1), Poland (1), Portugal (11), Romania (4), Slovenia (3), Spain (2), Switzerland (2), Thailand (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of China (1), United States (4: Alaska, California)
Total: 91 collections including 101 occurrences
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