Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Actinastreidae
Alternative spelling: Stephanasrea
Full reference: A. Etallon and J. Thurmann. 1864. Lethaea bruntrutana ou études paléontologiques et stratigraphiques sur les terrains jurassiques supérieurs du Jura bernois et en particulier des environs de Porrentruy (suite et fin). Denkschriften der Allgemeinen Schweizerischen Gesellschaft für die gesammten Naturwissenschaften 20:356-580
Parent taxon: Actinastreidae according to B. Lathuilière et al. 2023
See also Kiessling 2003, Morsch 1996, Roniewicz 1976 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Actinastrea, Agrostyliastraea, Allocoenia, Allocoeniopsis, Araucanastrea, Chondrocoenia, Coenastraea, Columactinastraea, Floriastrea, Holocoenia, Protostephanastrea, Sedekastrea, Stelidioseris, Texastrea
Subtaxa: Stephanastrea jurassica Stephanastrea montuosa Stephanastrea ramulifera Stephanastrea simonneliana Stephanastrea zangbeiensis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Cretaceous of Iran (1 collection)
• Jurassic of Afghanistan (1), Argentina (2), Chile (2), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), Ethiopia (1), France (15), Germany (4), Iran (1), Portugal (14), Romania (3), Slovakia (4), Spain (4), Switzerland (1), Tajikistan (1), Uzbekistan (2)
Total: 58 collections including 61 occurrences
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