†family Diplocteniopsidae Zlatarski 1968 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Diplocteniopsidae

Parent taxon: Faviina according to A. Ilcheva and N. Motchurova-Dekova 2011

Sister taxa: Cladocoridae, Columastreidae, Eugyridae, Faviicae, Heliastraeidae, Isastreidae, Misistellidae, Mussidae, Oculinidae, Pamiroseriidae, Phyllocoeniidae, Placocoeniidae, Placosmiliidae, Stylophyllicae, Tropidastraeidae

Subtaxa: none

Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Cretaceous of Austria (3 collections), Bulgaria (2), Greece (2), Japan (2), Mexico (3), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Switzerland (2), Turkmenistan (1)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Spain (1)

• Jurassic of Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (6), France (1), Georgia (5), Germany (9), Iran (2), Italy (2), Poland (1), Portugal (1), the Russian Federation (1), Slovenia (2), Switzerland (2), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (2)

Total: 53 collections including 74 occurrences

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