Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agatheliidae
Full reference: L. Beauvais and M. Beauvais. 1975. Une nouvelle famille dans le sous-ordre des Stylinida All.: les Agatheliidae nov. fam. (Madréporaires mésozoiques). Bulletin de la Societe Geologique de France 17:576-581
Parent taxon: Stylinina according to R. C. Baron-Szabo 2002
See also Beauvais and Beauvais 1975
Sister taxa: Cladophylliidae, Cyathophoridae, Euheliidae, Euhellidae, Stylinidae
Subtaxa: Agathelia Brachthelia Eothelia Multicolumnastraea Placophora
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Oligocene of Libya (1 collection)
• Paleocene of Puerto Rico (1), Slovakia (1)
• Cretaceous of Armenia (1), Australia (1), Austria (4), China (1), the Czech Republic (1), Germany (1), Greece (2), Iran (2), Jamaica (8), Mexico (6), New Zealand (4), Oman (2), Slovakia (2), Spain (2), Tanzania (1), Ukraine (2), the United Arab Emirates (2)
• Jurassic of China (1), Italy (1), Madagascar (1), Saudi Arabia (1)
Total: 49 collections including 54 occurrences