Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montastraeidae
Parent taxon: Scleractinia according to D. Huang et al. 2014
Sister taxa: Adekoheastrea, Agathiphylliidae, Amphiastraeina, Annotocyathus, Anomopora, Apelismilia, Aplocyathus, Aplosmiliidae, Archaeocoeniina, Archaeofungiina, Archaeolasmogyra, Archaeosmiliidae, Astraeoina, Astrocoeniina, Aulastraeoporidae, Bavarosmilia, Budiopsis, Calameastolia, Carantophyllum, Carcicocaenia, Caryophylliina, Chorisastraea, Clausastraeopsis, Clonosmilia, Coelomeandra, Comoseriidae, Coscinaraeidae, Cyclastraeidae, Cyclindrocyathus, Cylindrosmilia, Cynaria, Decaheliocoenia, Dendrophylliina, Desmocoenia, Dichotomosmilia, Diploastraeidae, Diplothecangia, Distichophylliina, Ebocotrochus, Eburneotrochus, Eckastraeidae, Edwardsomeandra, Epitrochus, Etalloniopsis, Euphylliidae, Eupsammidae, Eusmiliopsis, Fasciatiphyllia, Fasciseris, Faviina, Favitopsis, Felixaraeoidea, Fungiina, Furcophyllia, Gallitellia, Gardineroseris, Gombertiphyllia, Haplareidae, Hedeliastraea, Heliostylina, Helladophyllia, Heterocoeniina, Houchangocyathus, Isastraeidae, Isphyllastrea, Karatchastraea, Kobycoenia, Lamellomeandra, Lepiconus, Leptastreidae, Lithodendron, Lobophylliidae, Lupitschia, Mareastraea, Meandriina, Microsolenina, Miophora, Mioscapophyllia, Misistelloidea, Morchellastraea, Ondadiplocteniopsis, Oulastreidae, Pachyphylliidae, Pachysmilia, Pachythecaliina, Palaeophyllia, Palaeoseris, Palaeosmilia, Paracoryphyllia, Parastraeomorpha, Parastraeopora, Parepismiliidae, Phylloseriopsis, Phyllosmilioidea, Plerogyridae, Plesiastreidae, Pleuropodia, Psammocyathus, Pyramisasteria, Reisocyathus, Reussiphyllia, Rhabdofavia, Rhipidogyrina, Rhopalophyllia, Saeptiphyllia, Sakalavastraeopsis, Saltastraea, Sclydolithus, Siderocoenia, Siliningastraea, Sinasteria, Siniastraea, Smilostyliidae, Solenocoeniidae, Streptocyathopsis, Streptocyathus, Stylinina, Stylophyllina, Substuoresia, Thamnasteria cycloides, Thamnasteria komagataensis, Thamnasteria maxima, Thamnasteria protoserioides, Thamnasteria rikuzenica, Thamnasteriidae, Thamnasterites, Thamnastraea, Thecoseriopsis, Thecosmiliidae, Thigmastrea, Trachyphylliidae, Tropiastraea, Tropiastraeidae
Subtaxa: Montastraea
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Antigua and Barbuda (1 collection), Australia (9), the Bahamas (12), Barbados (16), Belize (5), Bermuda (1), Cayman Islands (23), Colombia (11), Costa Rica (63), Dominica (1), the Dominican Republic (6), French Polynesia (7), Guam (1), Haiti (2), India (2), Jamaica (7), Japan (5), Mexico (1), Montserrat (1), the Netherlands Antilles (17), New Caledonia (1), Northern Mariana Islands (1), Panama (17), Pitcairn (2), Saint Kitts and Nevis (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Sudan (1), United States (12: Florida), Vanuatu (1), Venezuela (3), Virgin Islands (2), Virgin Islands (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Bahamas (1), Costa Rica (7), Jamaica (1)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (4), Costa Rica (11), the Dominican Republic (14), Haiti (1), Indonesia (3), Japan (3), the Netherlands Antilles (3), United States (2: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of the Dominican Republic (10), the Netherlands Antilles (1), United States (1: Puerto Rico)
• Miocene of Anguilla (8), Austria (1), the Bahamas (1), Colombia (14), Cuba (1), Cyprus (1), the Dominican Republic (26), Egypt (7), Fiji (1), France (7), Grenada (2), Haiti (2), Indonesia (2), Iran (8), Italy (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Mexico (5), the Netherlands Antilles (1), Panama (32), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Puerto Rico (2), Romania (1), Trinidad and Tobago (9), Turkey (5), Ukraine (1), United States (2: Florida), Venezuela (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indonesia (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (8), the Dominican Republic (1), Greece (4), Haiti (3), Iran (1), Italy (35), Jamaica (2), Libya (1), Mexico (3), Puerto Rico (3), Somalia (2), Spain (2), Turkey (4), United States (3: Florida, Georgia, Texas), Venezuela (4)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)
• Eocene of Austria (1), Croatia (2), France (1), Germany (2), Hungary (2), Indonesia (1), Italy (5), Jamaica (1), Mexico (2), Panama (1), Spain (1)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1), Spain (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (3), Croatia (1), Cuba (1), the Czech Republic (1), Georgia (2), Greece (4), India (1), Japan (2), Mexico (3), the Netherlands (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (1), United States (8: New Mexico, Texas)
Total: 577 collections including 837 occurrences