Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Caryophylliidae
Lamarck (1801) is the authority for the genus Caryophyllia. I have not been able to track down who first created a type subgenus Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) for the genus.
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Parent taxon: Caryophyllia according to Lamarck 1801
Sister taxa: Caryophyllia (Acanthocyathus), Caryophyllia (Ceratocyathus), Caryophyllia (Premocyathus), Caryophyllia aequalis, Caryophyllia alaskensis, Caryophyllia arnoldi, Caryophyllia blakeleyensis, Caryophyllia calcitrapa, Caryophyllia californica, Caryophyllia calveri, Caryophyllia capayensis, Caryophyllia charrieri, Caryophyllia cladaxis, Caryophyllia clavus, Caryophyllia comanchei, Caryophyllia constricta, Caryophyllia crassicosta, Caryophyllia dalli, Caryophyllia degenerans, Caryophyllia denaria, Caryophyllia dentonensis, Caryophyllia gracilis, Caryophyllia granulosa, Caryophyllia inops, Caryophyllia japonica, Caryophyllia konincki, Caryophyllia lamellifera, Caryophyllia leptaxis, Caryophyllia mcglameryae, Caryophyllia mediavia, Caryophyllia neglecta, Caryophyllia oregonensis, Caryophyllia paucipaliata, Caryophyllia pedroensis, Caryophyllia pentaradiata, Caryophyllia quadragintaseptae, Caryophyllia salinaria, Caryophyllia sarsiae, Caryophyllia sciolzensis, Caryophyllia scobinosa, Caryophyllia simplex, Caryophyllia sismondai, Caryophyllia smithii, Caryophyllia suevica, Caryophyllia texana, Caryophyllia truncata, Caryophyllia vermicularis, Caryophyllia woodmanensis, Caryophyllia wynoocheensis
Subtaxa: Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) bukowskii Caryophyllia (Caryophyllia) cyathus
Type: Madrepora cyathus
Ecology: stationary low-level epifaunal suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Indonesia (1 collection), New Zealand (1)
• Miocene of Hungary (1), Italy (1), New Zealand (5)
• Oligocene of New Zealand (1)
• Whaingaroan of New Zealand (1)
• Eocene of New Zealand (6)
Total: 17 collections including 18 occurrences