Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Plesiastreidae
Synonym: Plesiastraeopsis Chevalier 1954
Parent taxon: Plesiastreidae according to W. Kiessling 2021
See also Baron-Szabo 2002, Baron-Szabo 2009, López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002 and Veron 2000
Sister taxa: none
Subtaxa: Plesiastrea californica Plesiastrea costata Plesiastrea fungiformis Plesiastrea grayi Plesiastrea incerta Plesiastrea microcalyx Plesiastrea moravica Plesiastrea sulcatilamellosa Plesiastrea versipora
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (5 collections), Cook Islands (1), Egypt (1), Indonesia (3), Japan (11), Kenya (3), New Caledonia (4), Pakistan (2), Papua New Guinea (4), Pitcairn (2)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Philippines (1)
• Pliocene of Egypt (1), Indonesia (5), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene to Pliocene of Indonesia (2)
• Miocene of Australia (1), Egypt (1), Fiji (4), Iran (8), New Zealand (3), Pakistan (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Romania (1), Turkey (7)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Somalia (1)
• Oligocene of Greece (1), Iran (1), Somalia (2)
• Eocene of Pakistan (1), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1), the Czech Republic (1), Mexico (2), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Spain (1)
Total: 86 collections including 97 occurrences
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