Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Agathiphylliidae
Synonym: Cyatomorpha Reuss 1868
Parent taxon: Agathiphylliidae according to W. Kiessling 2021
See also López-Pérez 2005, Sepkoski 2002 and Wells 1956
Sister taxon: Turnsekophyllia
Subtaxa: Agathiphyllia anguillensis Agathiphyllia antiguensis Agathiphyllia bosniaca Agathiphyllia browni Agathiphyllia gregaria Agathiphyllia hilli Agathiphyllia robusta Agathiphyllia splendens Agathiphyllia tenuis
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal microcarnivore-photosymbiotic
Distribution:
• Miocene of Anguilla (2 collections), Colombia (5), Egypt (1), Iran (1), Panama (2)
• Oligocene to Miocene of Iran (1)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (12), Cuba (2), the Dominican Republic (5), Greece (2), Iran (1), Italy (13), Jamaica (2), Libya (2), Mexico (2), Puerto Rico (2), Türkiye (1), Venezuela (3)
• Eocene of Hungary (3), Indonesia (1), Italy (4), Panama (1), Slovenia (2), Spain (1)
• Paleocene of Italy (1), Spain (2)
Total: 74 collections including 117 occurrences
Specimen images are retrieved through the ePANDDA API.
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