Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Alternative spelling: Antiguastraea
Full reference: T. W. Vaughan. 1919. Fossil corals from central America, Cuba, and Porto Rico, with an account of the American Tertiary, Pleistocene, and Recent coral reefs. Smithsonian Institution Bulletin 103:189-524
Parent taxon: Merulinidae according to W. Kiessling 2021
See also Baron-Szabo 2006, Kiessling 2008, López-Pérez 2005 and Sepkoski 2002
Sister taxa: Anisocoenia, Aquitanastraea, Astrea, Australogyra, Bikiniastrea, Boninastrea, Cladocora, Coelastrea, Cyphastrea, Dictuophyllia, Diplogyra, Dipsastraea, Echinopora, Edwardsastraea, Erythrastrea, Favites, Goniastrea, Hydnophora, Hydnophyllia, Leptoria, Liptodendron, Merulina, Monticulastraea, Mycedium, Orbicella, Oulophyllia, Paraclavarina, Paragoniastrea, Paraleptoria, Paramontastraea, Parastrea, Pectinia, Phacellocoenia, Platygyra, Plavecia, Procladocora, Scapophyllia, Tarbellastraea, Trachyphyllia
Subtaxa: Antiguastrea alveolaris Antiguastrea cellulosa Antiguastrea elegans Antiguastrea flandrini Antiguastrea jacobi Antiguastrea lucasiana Antiguastrea prava
Type: Antiguastrea cellulosa
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Miocene of Australia (1 collection), Colombia (5), France (5), Libya (1)
• Oligocene to Miocene of United States (1: Florida)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (8), Costa Rica (1), Cuba (1), the Dominican Republic (2), France (3), Greece (4), Haiti (1), Iran (1), Italy (49), Jamaica (2), Libya (3), Malta (2), Mexico (6), Puerto Rico (3), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovenia (2), Somalia (1), Spain (1), Türkiye (1), United States (3: Florida, Georgia, Texas), Venezuela (3)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)
• Eocene of Germany (2), Hungary (6), Italy (4), Panama (1), Romania (1), Spain (3)
• Paleocene of Spain (1)
• Cretaceous of Jamaica (4), Mexico (2), Tajikistan (1)
• Jurassic of Algeria (1)
Total: 138 collections including 162 occurrences
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