Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Montlivaltiidae
It appears that Montlivaltiidae and Thecosmiliidae have become entangled in the PBDB namespace. Because they are generally considered synonyms, I have done my best to have Thecosmiliidae take precedence.
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Parent taxon: Faviicae according to J. W. Wells 1956
See also Baron-Szabo et al. 2003, Lathuilière 2024, Morycowa and Misik 2005 and Turnsek 1997
Sister taxa: Anthemiphylliidae, Faviidae, Meandrinidae, Rhizangiidae, Tropiphyllidae
Subtaxa: Anisastraea Brevimaeandra Ceratothecia Clausastrea Coenotheca Complexastraeopsis Confusastrea Cyathophyllia Cyathophylliopsis Dimorphocoenia Elasmophyllia Goldfussastraea Goldfussastrea Isastrea Kobyphyllia Mapucheastrea Margarastreopsis Montlivaltia Nerthastraea Neuquinosmilia Paraclausastraea Paraphyllogyra Peplosmilia Placosmilia Placosmiliinae Plesiophyllia Puschastraea Rhabdophyllia Trochophyllia Trochosmilia
Type: Montlivaltia
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), Pakistan (3), Papua New Guinea (1), Saint Barthélemy (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 (12), Azerbaijan (2), Bulgaria (11), Chile (2), China (12), Croatia (1), Egypt (6), France (21), Georgia (4), Germany (10), Greece (12), India (2), Iran (7), Iraq (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (1), Japan (7), Madagascar (2), Mexico (13), the Netherlands (5), Oman (4), Pakistan (1), Poland (7), Romania (1), Serbia (9), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (3), Spain (17), Sweden (1), Switzerland (10), Tanzania (2), Trinidad and Tobago (1), Tunisia (2), Turkmenistan (7), Ukraine (9), 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 (3), Poland (2), Spain (1)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Algeria (3), Argentina (16), Austria (2), Azerbaijan (14), Belgium (1), Canada (3: British Columbia), Chile (81), China (4), Colombia (1), Croatia (1), Czechia (6), Ethiopia (12), France (126), Georgia (7), Germany (26), Greece (2), Hungary (2), India (12), Indonesia (2), Iran (19), Italy (5), Japan (6), Jordan (2), Luxembourg (1), Madagascar (11), Mexico (1), Montenegro (1), Morocco (14), Myanmar (1), Peru (1), Poland (19), Portugal (17), Romania (11), the Russian Federation (7), Saudi Arabia (10), Serbia (1), Slovakia (5), Slovenia (11), Spain (27), Switzerland (24), Tanzania (2), Thailand (2), Tunisia (3), Ukraine (2), the United Kingdom (50), Uzbekistan (3)
• Triassic to Jurassic of the United Kingdom (1)
• Triassic of Austria (7), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Canada (1: Yukon), China (5), Germany (1), Hungary (2), India (1), Indonesia (3), Italy (14), Japan (3), Poland (1), Romania (1), Thailand (2), Timor-Leste (2), Türkiye (1), United States (7: Alaska, Nevada, Oregon)
Total: 930 collections including 1471 occurrences