†family Actinacididae Vaughan and Wells 1943 (stony coral)

Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinacididae

Parent taxon: Poriticae according to J. W. Wells 1956

See also Turnsek 1997

Sister taxon: Poritidae

Subtaxa: Actinacis Actinhelia Elephantaria Thamnarea

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Ecology: stationary epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder

Distribution:

• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (4 collections), China (1), the Dominican Republic (1), Greece (2), Haiti (1), Iran (1), Italy (37), Jamaica (2), Libya (1), Mexico (1), Puerto Rico (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovenia (4), Somalia (1), Spain (1), United States (1: Georgia), Venezuela (1)

• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)

• Eocene of Austria (1), Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (1), Egypt (1), France (1), Germany (1), Hungary (5), Italy (13), Jamaica (3), Mexico (4), North Atlantic (1), Panama (1), Papua New Guinea (1), Romania (1), Slovakia (1), Slovenia (2), Spain (10), Ukraine (1)

• Paleocene of Austria (1), Croatia (1), France (1), Iran (2), Italy (2), Puerto Rico (1), Slovakia (11), Slovenia (9), Spain (2), Ukraine (1), United States (1: Alabama)

• Cretaceous of Austria (6), Bulgaria (6), Croatia (1), the Czech Republic (1), Georgia (1), Germany (1), Iran (1), Italy (1), Jamaica (21), Japan (1), Madagascar (1), Mexico (5), the Netherlands (4), Oman (3), Pakistan (4), Poland (2), Portugal (1), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Slovakia (2), Slovenia (3), Spain (5), Switzerland (1), Tunisia (1), Turkmenistan (1), Ukraine (2), the United Arab Emirates (4), United States (1: Texas)

• Jurassic to Cretaceous of Bulgaria (1)

• Jurassic of Bulgaria (2)

Total: 231 collections including 278 occurrences

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