Anthozoa - Scleractinia - Merulinidae
Alternative spelling: Caulastraea
Synonym: Dasyphyllia Milne-Edwards and Haime 1848
Parent taxon: Merulinidae according to D. Huang et al. 2014
See also Kosnik 2002, Sepkoski 2002, Veron 2000 and Wells 1956
Sister taxa: Anisocoenia, Antiguastrea, 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, Paraleptoria, Paramontastraea, Parastrea, Pectinia, Phacellocoenia, Platygyra, Plavecia, Procladocora, Scapophyllia, Tarbellastraea, Trachyphyllia
Subtaxa: Caulastraea geoffreyi Caulastraea tournoueri Caulastrea brevicaulis Caulastrea connata Caulastrea deformis Caulastrea farsis Caulastrea furcata Caulastrea fusinieri Caulastrea leptoclada Caulastrea matheroni Caulastrea portoricensis Caulastrea pseudoflabellum Caulastrea tumida
Ecology: stationary intermediate-level epifaunal photosymbiotic-suspension feeder
Distribution:
• Quaternary of Australia (1 collection), Costa Rica (8), Jamaica (1), Japan (5), the Netherlands Antilles (2), Pakistan (2), Panama (11), Saudi Arabia (1), Sudan (1)
• Pliocene to Pleistocene of Costa Rica (8), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (1)
• Pliocene of the Bahamas (5), Costa Rica (9), the Dominican Republic (4), Indonesia (1), Jamaica (1), the Netherlands Antilles (4)
• Miocene to Pliocene of United States (1: Puerto Rico)
• Miocene of Austria (1), Egypt (3), Fiji (1), France (7), Indonesia (4), Iran (4), Pakistan (1), Panama (6), Trinidad and Tobago (5), Turkey (3)
• Oligocene of Antigua and Barbuda (4), France (2), Greece (3), Iran (2), Italy (17), Jamaica (2), Puerto Rico (2), Saudi Arabia (1), Slovenia (4)
• Eocene to Oligocene of Greece (1)
• Eocene of Germany (1), Hungary (3), Indonesia (2), Italy (6), Jamaica (1), Pakistan (2), Slovenia (1), Spain (2)
• Paleocene of Egypt (1)
Total: 159 collections including 174 occurrences
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