Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Heliastraeidae
Alternative spelling: Heliastraea
Parent taxon: Heliastraeidae according to J. P. Chevalier 1961
See also Hladil et al. 1991 and Kiessling 2008
Sister taxon: Ellipsasteria
Subtaxa: Heliastraea defrancei Heliastraea hilarionensis Heliastrea (Athecastraea) Heliastrea autignacensis Heliastrea boueana Heliastrea carnegiei Heliastrea deformis Heliastrea defrancei Heliastrea delicata Heliastrea farquharsoni Heliastrea grandis Heliastrea irregularis Heliastrea langi Heliastrea laticosta Heliastrea lusitaniae Heliastrea mellahica Heliastrea nerthensis Heliastrea oligophylla Heliastrea parva Heliastrea pelouaensis Heliastrea saubriguensis Heliastrea saucatsensis Heliastrea solenastroides Heliastrea taurinensis Heliastrea virga
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of New Caledonia (1 collection)
• Pliocene of Haiti (1)
• Miocene of Bulgaria (1), Cyprus (2), France (19), Greece (6), Haiti (3), Indonesia (1), Iran (1), Italy (5), Libya (1), Morocco (1), Poland (1), Portugal (1), Romania (2), Saudi Arabia (2), Somalia (5), Spain (9), Turkey (4), Ukraine (1)
• Oligocene of France (3), Italy (3), Libya (3), Somalia (5)
• Eocene of Bosnia and Herzegovina (1), Italy (1)
• Cretaceous of Chile (1), Georgia (2), Greece (1), Jamaica (1), Serbia and Montenegro (2), Switzerland (1), Tajikistan (1)
Total: 92 collections including 159 occurrences
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