Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Rhipidogyridae
Parent taxon: Rhipidogyrina according to R. Baron-Szabo 2006
See also Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Placophylliidae, Trochoidomeandridae
Subtaxa: Aplosmiliinae Barysmilia Orbignygyra Paraacanthogyra Placohelia Pseudoironella Psilogyra Rhipidogyrinae Rhipidomeandra Saltocyathus Somalica
Type: Rhipidogyra
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 (7), Czechia (7), France (3), Georgia (2), Germany (2), Greece (2), Jamaica (13), Mexico (3), Oman (2), Poland (2), Portugal (2), Serbia (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (5), Tunisia (1), Türkiye (1), the United Arab Emirates (2)
• Jurassic of Czechia (3), France (4), Georgia (3), Germany (9), Iran (5), Italy (3), Montenegro (1), Morocco (2), Poland (3), Portugal (8), Romania (1), the Russian Federation (1), Spain (1), Switzerland (2), Tunisia (1), Ukraine (1)
Total: 115 collections including 136 occurrences