Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
Parent taxon: Faviicae according to J. W. Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Anthemiphylliidae, Faviidae, Meandrinidae, Merulinidae, Pectiniidae, Rhizangiidae, Tropiphyllidae
Subtaxa: none
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Pliocene of Costa Rica (1 collection)
• Miocene of Brazil (2), France (2), Indonesia (4), Iran (4), Libya (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Indonesia (1)
• Oligocene of France (2), Hungary (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), 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 (2), 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 Austria (18), Azerbaijan (2), Bulgaria (10), Chile (2), China (4), Croatia (1), Czechia (3), Egypt (1), France (21), Georgia (3), Germany (10), Greece (12), India (1), Iran (7), Iraq (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (5), Madagascar (1), Mexico (9), the Netherlands (5), Oman (4), Pakistan (1), Poland (7), Romania (1), Serbia (9), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (3), Spain (16), Sweden (1), Switzerland (7), Tanzania (3), Tunisia (2), Turkmenistan (5), Ukraine (7), the United Arab Emirates (1), the United Kingdom (2), United States (11: New Mexico, Texas, Utah), Uzbekistan (1), Venezuela (1)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Japan (2), Poland (2), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Argentina (5), Azerbaijan (9), Canada (4: British Columbia), Chile (19), China (2), Colombia (1), Czechia (5), Ethiopia (11), France (121), Georgia (6), Germany (25), Greece (1), India (6), Iran (14), Italy (5), Japan (5), Jordan (1), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (7), Morocco (11), Myanmar (1), Peru (2), Poland (18), Portugal (3), Romania (8), the Russian Federation (2), Saudi Arabia (7), Serbia (1), Slovakia (5), Slovenia (8), Spain (5), Switzerland (17), Tajikistan (1), Tanzania (1), Tunisia (2), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (39), United States (2: Idaho, Oregon), Uzbekistan (2)
• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Austria (3), Canada (3: British Columbia), China (1), Indonesia (1), Italy (6), Japan (2), Slovenia (1), Tajikistan (2), Timor-Leste (1), Türkiye (1), United States (26: Alaska, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon)
Total: 701 collections including 1089 occurrences