Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Astraeomorphidae
Parent taxon: Fungiina according to M. Bernecker et al. 1999
See also Turnsek 1997
Sister taxa: Acrosmiliidae, Agariciicae, Andemantastraeidae, Astraraeidae, Dermosmiliidae, Felixaraeidae, Fungiacyathidae, Fungiicae, Funginellidae, Haplaraeidae, Kobyastraeidae, Microbaciidae, Pachyphyllidae, Poriticae, Procyclolitidae, Rhipidastraeidae, Siderastreidae, Synastraeidae
Subtaxa: Astraeomorpha Seriastraea
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Triassic of Austria (14 collections), Canada (4: British Columbia, Yukon), Chile (1), China (2), Germany (1), Greece (1), India (1), Indian Ocean (3), Indonesia (2), Iran (4), Italy (17), Japan (4), Mexico (2), Nepal (1), Oman (2), Peru (1), Poland (4), the Russian Federation (8), Slovakia (3), Slovenia (6), Tajikistan (7), United States (20: Alaska, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon)
Total: 108 collections including 152 occurrences