Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Alternative combinations: Montastrea limbata, Phyllocoenia limbata
Synonym: Plesiastrea ramea Duncan 1864
Full reference: P. M. Duncan. 1863. On the fossil corals of the West Indian Islands. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 19:406-458
Belongs to Orbicella according to P. Flórez et al. 2018
See also De Buisonjé 1974, Duncan 1863, Frost and Langenheim 1974 and López-Pérez 2005
Sister taxa: Orbicella annularis, Orbicella benoisti, Orbicella boehmi, Orbicella faveolata, Orbicella franksi, Orbicella linggapadangensis, Orbicella murrayi, Orbicella nancyi, Orbicella pleiades, Orbicella praeheliopora
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Costa Rica (21 collections), the Dominican Republic (1), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Panama (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (6)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (3), Costa Rica (10), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (21), Jamaica (1), the Netherlands Antilles (9)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Aruba (1), the Dominican Republic (7), United States (1: Puerto Rico)
• Miocene of Colombia (2), the Dominican Republic (21), Grenada (1), Haiti (1), Mexico (4), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Panama (2), Trinidad and Tobago (6), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene of Venezuela (1)
Total: 126 collections including 127 occurrences
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