Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Parent taxon: Rhipidogyrina according to R. Baron-Szabo 2006
See also Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Placophylliidae, Trochoidomeandridae
Subtaxa: Aplosmiliinae Astreoidogyra Barysmilia Bodeurina Columellogyra Cymosmilia Orbignygyra Paraacanthogyra Phytogyra Placohelia Pruvostastraea Psammogyra Pseudoironella Psilogyra Rhipidogyrinae Rhipidomeandra Rhipidosmilia Saltocyathus Somalica Starostinia Tiaradendron
Ecology: stationary epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Italy (1 collection)
• Eocene of Italy (3), Panama (1)
• Paleocene of Madagascar (1), Slovakia (1)
• Cretaceous of Austria (4), Bulgaria (12), China (1), the Czech Republic (7), France (3), Georgia (4), Germany (2), Greece (3), Jamaica (14), Mexico (3), Oman (2), Poland (2), Portugal (2), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovenia (2), Spain (7), Tunisia (1), Turkey (1), Turkmenistan (1), the United Arab Emirates (2)
• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1), Japan (2)
• Jurassic of China (1), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (5), Ethiopia (2), France (14), Georgia (6), Germany (11), India (1), Iran (5), Italy (5), Japan (1), Morocco (3), Poland (8), Portugal (14), Romania (3), the Russian Federation (2), Saudi Arabia (2), Serbia and Montenegro (1), Slovenia (3), Spain (4), Switzerland (4), Tunisia (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (1), the United Kingdom (1)
Total: 184 collections including 287 occurrences