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), Bonaire (1), Cayman Islands (23), Colombia (3), Costa Rica (31), Curaçao (1), the Dominican Republic (6), Jamaica (3), Japan (1), Mexico (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 Curaçao (1), Indonesia (2), 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), Sint Maarten (1), Trinidad and Tobago (2), Türkiye (2)
• Oligocene of Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Mexico (2), Türkiye (4)
• Eocene of Christmas Island (1), Hungary (2)
• Cretaceous of Jamaica (3)
Total: 164 collections including 230 occurrences