Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Mussidae
Parent taxon: Mussidae according to A. F. Budd et al. 2012
Sister taxa: Antilla, Aquitanophyllia, Circophyllia, Cyclomussa, Cycloria, Faviinae, Homophyllia, Indomussa, Indophyllia, Leptomussa, Lithodendrum, Lithophyllia, Matejkia, Micromussa, Palaeomussa, Syzygophyllia
Subtaxa: Isophyllia Mussa Mycetophyllia Scolymia
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of the Bahamas (6 collections), Barbados (2), Cayman Islands (23), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (31), the Dominican Republic (6), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), Mexico (2), the Netherlands Antilles (2), New Zealand (6), Panama (13), Pitcairn (1), United States (2: Florida)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (1), Jamaica (1)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (1), Costa Rica (5), Indonesia (2), Jamaica (1), Japan (1), Papua New Guinea (1), United States (3: Florida)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (2), the Netherlands Antilles (1), United States (1: Puerto Rico)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Colombia (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Indonesia (3), Iran (4), Italy (1), Japan (1), Panama (9), Portugal (3), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Turkey (2)
• Oligocene of Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (2), Turkey (4)
• Eocene of Christmas Island (1), Hungary (2)
• Cretaceous of Jamaica (3)
Total: 163 collections including 229 occurrences