Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Parent taxon: Faviicae according to J. W. Wells 1956
See also Baron-Szabo et al. 2003, Morycowa and Misik 2005 and Turnsek 1997
Sister taxa: Anthemiphylliidae, Faviidae, Meandrinidae, Merulinidae, Pectiniidae, Rhizangiidae, Tropiphyllidae
Subtaxa: Anisastraea Brevimaeandra Ceratothecia Clausastrea Coenotheca Complexastraeopsis Complexastrea Confusastrea Cyathophyllia Cyathophylliopsis Dimorphocoenia Elasmophyllia Goldfussastraea Goldfussastrea Isastrea Mapucheastrea Margarastreopsis Montlivaltiinae Nerthastraea Neuquinosmilia Paraclausastraea Paraphyllogyra Peplosmilia Placosmilia Placosmiliinae Puschastraea Rhabdophyllia Thecomeandra Thecosmilia Trochophyllia Trochosmilia
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1 collection), Papua New Guinea (1)
• Miocene of Brazil (2), France (2), Indonesia (4), Iran (4), Libya (1), Pakistan (1), Sri Lanka (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indonesia (1)
• Oligocene of France (2), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Italy (2), Libya (1), the Netherlands (1), Slovenia (1), Somalia (1)
• Eocene of Croatia (4), Germany (2), Hungary (6), Italy (4), Japan (1), Mexico (2), North Atlantic (1), Pakistan (3), Papua New Guinea (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (7), Ukraine (1)
• Paleocene of France (1), the Netherlands (2), Pakistan (2), United States (1: New Jersey)
• Cretaceous of Albania (1), Austria (22), Azerbaijan (2), Bulgaria (16), Chile (2), China (16), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (3), Egypt (6), France (21), Georgia (4), Germany (11), Greece (12), India (2), Iran (7), Iraq (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (8), Madagascar (2), Mexico (17), the Netherlands (5), Oman (4), Pakistan (1), Poland (7), Romania (1), Serbia and Montenegro (9), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (3), Spain (23), Sweden (1), Switzerland (8), Tanzania (3), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Tunisia (2), Turkmenistan (7), Ukraine (9), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (1), United States (11: New Mexico, Texas, Utah), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (2)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (5), Poland (2), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Algeria (3), Argentina (16), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (17), Belgium (1), Canada (4: British Columbia), Chile (81), China (4), Colombia (1), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (9), Ethiopia (12), France (142), Georgia (12), Germany (33), Greece (2), Hungary (2), India (12), Indonesia (2), Iran (23), Italy (5), Japan (6), Jordan (2), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (11), Mexico (1), Morocco (18), Myanmar (1), Peru (2), Poland (22), Portugal (27), Romania (10), the Russian Federation (7), Saudi Arabia (10), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovakia (5), Slovenia (12), Spain (28), Switzerland (24), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (3), Thailand (2), Tunisia (5), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (65), United States (2: Idaho, Oregon), Uzbekistan (6)
• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Austria (8), Bosnia and Herzegovina (2), Canada (5: British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (1), China (8), East Timor (2), Germany (1), Hungary (2), India (1), Indonesia (5), Italy (21), Japan (4), Poland (1), Romania (1), Slovenia (1), Tajikistan (2), Thailand (2), Turkey (1), United States (33: Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon), Vietnam (1)
Total: 1098 collections including 2058 occurrences