Parent taxon: Helioporacea according to J.E.N. Veron 2000
See also Sepkoski 2002 and Squires and Demetrion 1992
Sister taxa: Epiphaxum, Helioporidae, Kaluginella, Octotremacis, Polytremacis
Subtaxa: Heliopora bennetti Heliopora boettgeri Heliopora lusanovkaensis Heliopora mexicanae Heliopora radiata Heliopora sparsipora Heliopora stewarti
Ecology: stationary epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Cook Islands (1 collection), Guam (1), Japan (2), Maldives (2), the Marshall Islands (2), North Pacific (1), Papua New Guinea (1), the Philippines (2), Taiwan (1), Tuvalu (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of the Philippines (1)
• Miocene of Indonesia (3), Iran (1), Malaysia (2), the Marshall Islands (3), Northern Mariana Islands (1)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (1)
• Eocene to Miocene of the Marshall Islands (3)
• Eocene of Cuba (1), Italy (2), the Marshall Islands (2), Mexico (3), Panama (2)
• Paleocene of Denmark (1), Iran (1), Puerto Rico (1), Ukraine (1)
• Cretaceous of Armenia (1), Azerbaijan (1), Czechia (6), Germany (1), Greece (1), Jamaica (2), Poland (1), Serbia (3), Slovakia (1), Spain (2), the United Arab Emirates (2)
Total: 64 collections including 67 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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